Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 40 Issue 5

What determines individuals' preferences for efficiency over equity-based wages?

Prosper F. Bangwayo-Skeete, Afaf H. Rahim, Precious Zikhali

– The paper aims to examine factors that influence individuals' preferences between wages indexed on job performance or efficiency over equity-based wages.

Institutions and growth: a developing country case study

Luciano Nakabashi, Ana Elisa Gonçalves Pereira, Adolfo Sachsida

The Brazilian municipalities show a huge disparity in income level. The GDP per capita difference between the richest and the poorest municipalities is about 190 times, according…

Estimating the time varying NAIRU in Iran

Abbas Valadkhani, Sayyed M. Mehdee Araee

The main purpose of this paper is to provide more accurate estimates of Iran's time varying non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) than what already exists in the…

Dynamics of obesity in Finland

Ferda Halicioglu

The purpose of this research is to study empirically the dynamics of obesity in Finland and provide empirical evidence of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure…

Predicting informed trading at merger announcements

Rebecca Abraham, Charles Harrington

This paper aims to propose a method of forecasting the level of informed trading at merger announcements by permitting liquidity traders to adjust their trading based upon signals…

Informal economy and spatial mobility: are informal workers economic refugees?

Marcelo Arbex, Ricardo Freguglia, Flavia Chein

The paper aims to focus the attention on a particular segment of the labor market – informal workers. Despite a large literature on migration, interesting and relevant questions…

Energy consumption, pollution and economic development in 16 emerging countries

Usama Al-mulali, Che Normee Che Sab

– This study aims to investigate the impact of total primary energy consumption and CO₂ emissions on the economic development in 16 emerging countries.