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African Regional Agreements: Impact on Trade with or without Currency Unions

The aim of this paper is (i) to assess the impact of regional agreements on members’ trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (intra-regional trade as well as trade with the rest of the world), controlling for the other traditional determinants and (ii) to compare the respective effect of the preferential trade agreements and the currency unions. Considering the period 1962–96, we first assess...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2004

Almost Consistent Estimation of Panel Probit Models with 'Small' Fixed Effects

We propose four different GMM estimators that allow almost consistent estimation of the structural parameters of panel probit models with fixed effects for the case of small T and large N. The moments used are derived for each period from a first order approximation of the mean of the dependent variable conditional on explanatory variables and on the fixed effect. The estimators...

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English / 01/02/2003

A Free Trade Area of The Americas: Any Gains for the South?

Building on the experience of NAFTA, and assuming that rules of origin (RoO) negotiated under NAFTA are likely to resemble those that would be agreed upon in an FTAA, this paper discusses how different RoO criteria would affect different Southern partners in a multi-stage production setting. Next, we use a combination of parametric and non-parametric methods to estimate the costs of...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2003

Rapport sur l'évolution du corps intermédiaire au sein de l'Université de Genève entre 1992 et 2002

Notre étude sur l'évolution du corps intermédiaire de l'Université de Genève a été effectuée à partir de la base de données portant sur l'ensemble du personnel de l'Université mise à disposition par le Rectorat, grâce notamment à l'appui de Madame Ruth Wagner du service du personnel. Ces données, tirées des fichiers du personnel de l'Université,...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2003

Statistically Assisted Programme Selection - International Experiences and Potential Benefits for Switzerland

Allocating people into social programmes on the basis of statistical tools has gained increasing acceptance in recent years. The need for better targeting of active labour market programmes recently has arisen in Switzerland, too. Statistically assisted programme allocation could be an effective tool to increase the effectiveness of labour market policies. It is a software tool that...

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English / 01/01/2003

The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching

If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disabled and non-disabled individuals. This Paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for programme evaluation. Such techniques are...

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English / 01/01/2003

Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data origi-nating from administrative unemployment and social security...

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English / 01/10/2002

Eine wirkungsorientierte aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz: Eine Vision - zwei Realitäten

Heutzutage betreiben viele europäische Länder neben einer passiven Einkommensabsicherung der Arbeitslosen auch eine substantielle aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik (Fortbildungskurse, Beschäftigungsprogramme, etc.), um deren Wiederbeschäftigung zu beschleunigen. Dieses Papier entwickelt in groben Zügen die Vision einer gezielten wirkungsorientierten aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik, wie sie in...

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English / 01/05/2002

Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies

Not available in German. This paper addresses microeconometric evaluation by matching methods when the programs under consideration are heterogeneous. Assuming that selection into the different sub-programs and the potential outcomes are independent given observable characteristics, estimators based on dif-ferent propensity scores are compared and applied to the analysis of active...

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English / 01/05/2002

Les raisons des différences de chômage entre Genève et le reste de la Suisse

Le but de cet article est de comprendre pourquoi le taux de chômage à Genève est plus élevé que dans le reste de la Suisse. Pour expliquer les différences de taux de chômage cantonales, nous utilisons une approche basée sur l'analyse des entrées et de sorties dans et taux de chômage et la durée du chômage individuelle des sorts entre les cantons. Nous trouvons d'abord que...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2002

Eine Übersicht über gängige Modelle der Panelökonometrie und ihre kausale Interpretation

Paneldaten gewinnen als Datenmaterial für empirische Studien im Bereich der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, sowie auch in vielen anderen empirisch ausgerichteten Forschungsfeldern, eine immer grössere Bedeutung. Das Papier gibt einen nichttechnischen Überblick über in der ökonometrischen Paneldatenanalyse populäre lineare und nichtlineare Modelle und diskutiert die Annahmen, unter denen...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2002

Some practical issues in the evaluation of heterogeneous labour market programmes by matching methods

Not available in German. Recently several studies analysed active labour market policies using a newly proposed matching estimator for multiple programmes. Since there is only very limited practical experience with this estimator, this paper checks its sensitivity with respect to issues that are of practical importance. The estimator turns out to be fairly robust to several matters...

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English / 01/01/2002

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