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This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time-series data from Chile in a production function framework. It addresses the limitations of the existing literature and focuses on the impact of manufactured and primary exports on productivity growth. In order to investigate if and how manufactured and primary exports affect economic growth via increases in productivity, several ...
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The Developing Economies
44 (2006), 3, S. 306-28
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dierk Herzer, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.
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This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than 20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to Germany from 18 source countries in the period 1967-2001. Our results suggest that the choice of an estimation procedure has a substantial impact on the parameter estimates of the migration function. Out-of-sample ...
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Empirical Economics
31 (2006), 3, S. 735-754
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Herbert Brücker
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In this paper we perform a comparative study of the forecasting properties of the about 30 alternative leading indicators for Germany using the growth rates of German real GDP. In addition to them, we have constructed a diffusion index based on the principal component analysis and including 145 component series that reflect all the facets of German economy. We use the post-unification data which cover ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
226 (2006), 3, S. 234-259
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Boriss Silverstovs
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This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social exclusion is viewed in terms of deprivation of the person concerned with respect to different functionings in the society. At the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a function of individual exclusions. The class of subgroup decomposable social exclusion measures using a set of ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
52 (2006), 3, S. 377-398
| Satya R. Chakravarty, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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Tax competition may be different in "new economic geography settings" compared to standard tax competition models. If the mobile factor is completely agglomerated in one region, it earns an agglomeration rent which can be taxed. Closer integration first results in a "race to the top" in taxes before leading to a "race to the bottom". We reexamine these issues in a model that produces stable equilibria ...
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European Economic Review
50 (2006), 3, S. 647-668
| Rainald Borck, Michael Pflüger
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This paper allows for endogenous costs in the estimation of price cost margins. In particular, we estimate price-cost margins when firms bargain over wages. We extent the standard two-equation set-up (demand and first-order condition in the product market) to include a third equation, which is derived from bargaining over wages. In this way, price-cost margins are determined by wages and vice versa. ...
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The Journal of Industrial Economics
54 (2006), 3, S. 351-368
| Damien J. Neven, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Zhentang Zhang
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Russia's system of fiscal federalism is examined and evaluated. Current theories of fiscal federalism provide criteria for evaluating such systems. Developments in OECD countries are examined to provide comparative perspectives. Data from Russia's Goskomstat and the Ministry of Finance, which provide an overview of Russia's regional economic characteristics, are used to apply the selected evaluation ...
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Post-Soviet Affairs
22 (2006), 3, S. 189-224
| Ulrich Thießen
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The concept of anomie is one of the classics of sociological theory. Developed by scholars such as Emile Durkheim and Robert K. Merton, the concept refers to the absence of clear social norms and values and to a lack of sense of social regulation. However, whereas Merton focused on features of relative deprivation that cause anomie, Durkheim was primarily interested in the link between rapid social ...
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Social Indicators Research
76 (2006), 3, S. 467-498
| Denis Huschka, Steffen Mau
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We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki's index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model.
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Economics Letters
90 (2006), 3, S. 421-426
| Walter Bossert, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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This paper uses a state of the art three-stage estimation technique to identify the determinants of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany. Their making is surprisingly alike. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 (GSOEP) release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human capital. But this choice has a very strong intergenerational ...
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Small Business Economics
26 (2006), 3, S. 279-300
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann