The Determinants of the Prevalence of Single Mothers: A Cross-Country Analysis
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families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individuallevel data for 14 countries. I find evidence that increases in the level of public support are significantly and positively...
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The Drive for Quality - the Impact on Accounting in the Wine Industry
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has been a movement towards expanding higher quality production. We report on interviews with wine producers in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Spain, and identify a variety of ways in which a more sophisticated approach to accounting has...
Temporary Help Agencies and Workers' Occupational Mobility
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upgrading chances as opposed to those who have not been hired through these intermediaries. A screening approach to the role of those labor brokers suggests that agency workers may expect greater chances of upgrading from one occupation to another. Results...
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Trade and Productivity
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Francisco Alcalá; Antonio Ciccone; Resumen : We estimate the effect of international trade on average labor productivity at the country level. Our empirical approach...
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Capital, Wages, and Growth: Theory and Evidence
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predictions and policy implications of different growth theories. We show that both can be identified with individual wage data and implement our approach at the city-level using US Census data on individuals in 173 cities for 1970, 1980, and 1990. Estimation...
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Internet e-ethics in Confrontation with an Activists' Agenda: Yahoo! on Trial
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the firm. Using a business ethics approach, we distinguish the legal, technical, philosophical and managerial issues involved in the case and their management by Yahoo! We conclude on the difficulty of governing relations with society from corporate...
Testing Calibrated General Equilibrium Models
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the details of the procedure, the advantages and the disadvantages of the approach, with particular reference to the issue of testing ``false'' economic models. We provide an overview of the most recent simulation--based approaches to the testing...
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Restless Bandits, Linear Programming Relaxations and a Primal-dual Index Heuristic
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Dimitris Bertsimas; José Niño-Mora; Resumen : We develop a mathematical programming approach for the classical PSPACE - hard restless bandit problem in stochastic...
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Productivity Growth and the Exchange Rate Regime: The Role of Financial Development
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set spanning the years 1960-2000. Our approach delivers results that are in striking contrast to the vast existing empirical exchange rate literature, which largely finds the effects of exchange rate volatility on real activity to be relatively small...
The Poor Stay Poor: Non-Convergence across Countries and Regions
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the results. Our approach permits the estimation of different convergence rates to different steady states for each cross sectional unit. When this diversity is allowed, we find that convergence of each unit to (its own) steady state income level is...
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Ethics Outside, Within, or Beyond OR Models
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models (ethics within OR models). Presenting and discussing an approach that combines OR models with the process of OR (ethics beyond OR models), we suggest rigorous ways to express the relation between ethics and OR models. As our work is exploratory, we...
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The Domain and Interpretation of Utility Functions: An Exploration
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of choice have a well-defined utility although individuals may vary in the way they treat these objects in a specific context. We provide examples of such a methodological approach that may explain some reversal of preferences and suggest possible...
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Endogenous Bargaining Power
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Joan Esteban; József Sákovics; Resumen : We present a novel approach to N-person bargaining, based on the idea that the agreement reached in a negotiation is determined...
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Iterated Local Search
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engine. The success of Iterated Local Search lies in the biased sampling of this set of local optima. How effective this approach turns out to be depends mainly on the choice of the local search, the perturbations, and the acceptance criterion. So far, in...
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Principal Curves and Principal Oriented Points
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. They are nonlinear generalizations of the first principal component, a characterization of which is the basis for the principal curves definition. In this paper we propose an alternative approach based on a different property of principal components...
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Forest Fires: Evaluation of Government Intervention Measures
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production and government prevention and extinction measures from a policy evaluation perspective. An observational approach is first applied to select forest fires in the north east of Spain. Taking a selection of fires with a certain size, a multiple...
