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The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets
Least developed countries (LDCs) hoped that the DOHA round would bring them greater market access in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries than for non-LDCs. Using HS-6 tariff level data for the United States and the EU for 2004, this paper estimates that, once the erosion from preferential access into the EU to non-LDCs is taken into account, LDCs have...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Measures of export diversification
How export patterns vary across time and countries has become a subject of intense descriptive analysis in recent years. The originality of our work is to compute usual diversification indices using a very large and disaggregated dataset on exports. Export data is from UNCTAD’s COMTRADE database at the HS6 level (4’991 lines).
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
An invariance property of quadratic forms in random vectors with a selection distribution, with application to sample variogram and covariogram estimators
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
We estimate short-run, medium-run, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for the unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a 10-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we use an administrative database compiled for evaluating German training...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2009
Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany : Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative individual database coming from administrative data sources. Using matching methods, we find that over a horizon of 2.5 years after programme start the programmes fail to increase the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2009
Targeting Labour Market Programmes : Results from A Randomized Experiment
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each programme and thereby suggested an 'optimal' labour market programme for each...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/09/2009
Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP) 1984 to 2006. Econometric problems due to individuals choosing their own level of...
Institution partenaire
English / 04/07/2009
Measuring conditional cooperation: a replication study in Russia
We replicate the strategy-method experiment by Fischbacher et al. (Econ. Lett. 71:397-404, 2001) developed to measure attitudes towards cooperation in a one-shot public goods game. We collected data from 160 students at four different universities across urban and rural Russia. Using the classification proposed by Fischbacher et al. (2001) we find that the distribution of types is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2009
Wage inequality and segregation between native and immigrant workers in Switzerland: evidence using matched employee-employer data
We analyze segregation between immigrants and natives at the firm level and explore the connection between segregation and wage inequality in Switzerland.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Labor market reforms, job instability, and the flexibility of the employment relationship
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
China and India’s challenge to Latin America : opportunity or threat?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
On crop biodiversity, risk exposure, and food security in the highland of Ethiopia
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Social inequality, local leadership and collective action: an empirical study of forest commons
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Has distance died? An update
Contrary to expectations, evidence of a death of distance has eluded numerous estimations in the popular gravity model of trade: estimates of the coefficient of distance are markedly higher in studies with recent data. This column shows that this is only so for the poorer countries who are trading with geographically closer partners. This regionalization of trade for low-income...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries
The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the “distance puzzle”. We review the evidence and explanations. Using an extensive data set of 124 countries over the period 1970-2005, we confirm the existence of this puzzle and identify...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Einflussfaktoren auf die Performance von Dach-Hedgefonds
Institution partenaire
/ 01/01/2009
Sequential Causal Models for the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs
This article reviews inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects. A distribution theory based on sequential generalized method of moments estimation is proposed and the method is applied to a reevaluation of some parts of the Swiss active labor market policy to obtain new results and discuss several issues about the implementation of the estimation...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Sequential Potential Outcome Models to Analyze the Effects of Fertility on Labor Market Outcomes
This paper proposes to use dynamic treatment models to analyze the effects of fertility on labor market interactions. It argues that when large data sets are available the dynamic potential outcome model is an interesting modeling framework because it allows the careful consideration of the selection issues coming from the interaction of fertility and labor market decisions at...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
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