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Selected AbstractsWhy Do the Young and Educated in LDCs Concentrate in Large Cities?ECONOMICA, Issue 285 2005Evidence from Migration Data Do the young and educated in LDCs have a greater preference to locate in big cities? If so, this may help to explain how cities spatially concentrate the educated and young, and why the rising share of these workers in many LDCs may contribute to city growth. This paper explores migration flows into and out of Egypt's three largest cities. We study whether the higher shares of such workers in cities arise because these workers perceive relatively greater benefits from living in cities, given relative urban/rural wage rates, or because the relative demand for these workers rises with city size. [source] Dimensioning of secondary and tertiary control reserve by probabilistic methodsEUROPEAN TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL POWER, Issue 4 2009Christoph Maurer Abstract Given the rising share of intermittent generation out of renewable energy sources on the one hand and the increased regulatory efforts to lower transmission costs and tariffs on the other hand, the optimal dimensioning of necessary control reserve has gained additional importance during the last years. Grid codes like the UCTE Operation Handbook do not provide definitive and unambiguous methods for dimensioning of secondary and tertiary control reserves. This paper therefore presents a method which calculates the necessary control reserve considering all important drivers for power imbalances like power plant outages, load variations and forecast error. For dimensioning, a probabilistic criterion, the accepted probability of insufficient control reserve, is used. Probability density functions of control area imbalances are calculated using a convolution algorithm. This paper provides analyses for a stylised example system to demonstrate the capabilities of the method. In a sensitivity analysis the impact of drivers like plant failures and forecast errors of load and generation is shown. The presented method is used by transmission system operators and regulatory authorities to determine and substantiate the necessary amount of control reserve. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Internationalisation of UK R&DFISCAL STUDIES, Issue 3 2001Nicholas Bloom Abstract Policies to promote research and development (R&D) are high on the government's agenda. R&D and innovation are seen as key drivers of economic growth and important for raising UK productivity. This paper considers recent trends in UK R&D performance. We show that UK R&D is more internationalised than that of other G5 countries and is becoming increasingly so at a faster rate. A rising share of UK R&D is funded from abroad and UK firms are undertaking more of their R&D overseas. Using an international panel of countries, we show that R&D in one country responds to a change in the price in another ,competitor' country. This suggests that UK innovation policies could play an important role in determining whether increasingly footloose R&D locates in the UK or moves overseas. [source] Reversal of Fortunes or Continued Success?INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2010Cohort Differences in Education, Earnings of Childhood Immigrants Using several years of Canadian census data, this study examines cohort differences in educational attainment and earnings among childhood immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1960 and 1989. Successive cohorts of childhood immigrants had increasingly higher university completion rates than their Canadian-born peers by age 25,34. We find that this lead was tempered by declining earnings of immigrant parents relative to Canadian-born parents, particularly among the 1980s cohort. Despite rising university completion rates, wages of male (but not female) childhood immigrants lagged behind those of their Canadian-born peers. This gap can be accounted for largely by the rising share of members of racial minority groups and the decreasing incidence of full-time employment. [source] Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Competition between Floaters and FixersJOURNAL OF MONEY, CREDIT AND BANKING, Issue 2009PAUL R. BERGIN pass-through; exchange rates; translog; China This paper studies how a rise in the share of U.S. imports from China, or any country with a fixed exchange rate, can explain a disproportionate fall in exchange rate pass-through to U.S. import prices. A theoretical model provides an explanation working through changes in markups, showing that a particular "local bias" condition is necessary and that free entry amplifies the effect. The model produces a structural equation for pass-through regressions including the China share; panel regressions over 1993,2006 indicate that the rising share of trade from China or other exchange rate fixers can explain as much as one-half of the observed decline in pass-through for the United States. [source] Measuring Citizen Preferences for Public Services Using Surveys: Does a "Gray Peril" Threaten Funding for Public Education?PUBLIC BUDGETING AND FINANCE, Issue 1 2003William Duncombe Given the rising share of senior citizens and their higher voter participation rates, seniors could represent a sizeable bloc of voters in many local elections. Concerns have been raised about a "gray peril," where seniors vote against some local services, such as education. Preferences for education are examined using a contingent valuation survey method in the context of local school budget referenda. The results suggest for this district that elders are a heterogeneous group, and that block voting against schools is unlikely. The impact of age on preferences appears more likely to emerge in how these groups respond to changes in their economic circumstances. [source] | ||||||||||