UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers

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2007-01: Beyond dualism: Multisegmented labor markets in Ghana

James Heintz and Fabian Slonimczyk

2006-09: Social choice with a continuous ordering function

Alex Coram

2006-08: Relative advantage, queue jumping, and welfare maximizing wealth distribution

Alex Coram and Lyle Noakes

2006-07: An asymmetric dynamic struggle between pirates and producers

Alex Coram

2006-06: Whose Money, Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework

Michael A. Ash and Sanjiv Gupta

2006-05: Pursuing Manufacturing-BasedExport-Led Growth: Are Developing Countries Increasingly Crowding Each Other Out?

Arslan Razmi

2006-04: Japanese growth and stagnation: a Keynesian perspective

Peter Skott and Takeshi Nakatani

2006-03: Aspects of Informalization and Income Distribution in Developing Countries: A Modified Specific Factors Approach

Arslan Razmi

2006-02: Social Segregation and the Dynamics of Group Inequality

Samuel Bowles and Rajiv Sethi

2006-01: Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix

Carol E. Heim

2005-18: Price Competition and the Fallacy of Composition in Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Estimates of Short-Run Growth Effects

Arslan Razmi and Robert Blecker

2005-17: Power-Biased Technological Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality

Peter Skott and Frederick Guy

2005-16: Exercises in Futility: Post-War Automobile-Trade Negotiations between Japan and the United States

Donald W. Katzner and Mikhail J. Nikomarvo

2005-15: Racism, xenophobia, and redistribution

Woojin Lee, John Roemer and Karine Van der Straeten

2005-14: Can macroeconomic policy stimulate private investment in South Africa? New insights from aggregate and manufacturing sector-level evidence

Leonce Ndikumana

2005-13: Distributional conflict, the state, and peace building in Burundi

Leonce Ndikumana

2005-12: Prosperity and Stagnation in Capitalist Economies

Toichiro Asada, Peter Flaschel and Peter Skott

2005-11: Keynesian Theory and the AD-AS Framework: A Reconsideration

Amitava Dutt and Peter Skott

2005-10: The Second Paycheck to Keep Up With the Joneses: Relative Income Concerns and Labor Market Decisions of Married Women

Yongjin Park

2005-09: The Contractionary Short-Run Effects of Nominal Devaluation in Developing Countries: Some Neglected Nuances

Arslan Razmi

2005-08: Values and Politics in the US: An Equilibrium Analysis of the 2004 Election

Woojin Lee and John Roemer

2005-07: Cultural Variation in the Theory of the Firm

Donald W. Katzner

2005-06: Wage inequality and overeducation in a model with efficiency wages

Peter Skott

2005-05: Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model: The Case of India

Arslan Razmi

2005-04: The Role of the State in Economic Transformation: Comparing the Transition Experiences of Russia and China

David M. Kotz

2005-03: The Effects of Export-Oriented, FDI-Friendly Policies on the Balance of Payments in a Developing Economy: A General Equilibrium Investigation

Arslan Razmi

2005-02: Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?

Arslan Razmi and Robert Blecker

2005-01: Free to Move: Migration, Tax Competition and Redistribution

Woojin Lee

2004-15: Guard Labor: An Essay in Honor of Pranab Bardhan

Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev

2004-14: Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?

Samuel Bowles and Yongjin Park

2004-13: Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People

Michael A. Ash and M.V. Lee Badgett

2004-12: Election campaigns, agenda setting and electoral outcomes

Manfred Holler and Peter Skott

2004-11: Steindlian Models of Growth and Stagnation

Peter Skott and Peter Flaschel

2004-10: The Current Non-Status of General Equilibrium Theory

Donald W. Katzner

2004-09: Mythical Ages and Methodological Strictures - Joan Robinson's Contributions to the Theory of Economic Growth

Peter Skott

2004-08: Female Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru

Carmen Diana Deere, Rosa Luz Durán, Merrilee Mardon and Thomas Masterson

2004-07: Ideological State Apparatuses, Consumerism, and U.S. Capitalism: Lessons for the Left

Richard Wolff

2004-06: By What Measure? Family Time Devoted to Children in the U.S

Nancy Folbre, Jayoung Yoon, Kade Finnoff and Allison Sidle Fuligni

2004-05: Aid, Conditionality, and War Economies

James K. Boyce

2004-04: Fairness as a source of hysteresis in employment and relative wages

Peter Skott

2004-03: Wage inequality and skill asymmetries

Peter Skott and Paul Auerbach

2004-02: Economic Explanation, Ordinality and the Adequacy of Analytic Specification

Donald W. Katzner and Peter Skott

2004-01: Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment

James K. Boyce

2003-01: Financial Development, Financial Structure, and Domestic Investment: International Evidence

Leonce Ndikumana

2002-02: Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries

Leonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce

2002-01: What Determines Cartel Success?

Margaret Levenstein and Valerie Suslow

2001-01: International Cartel Enforcement: Lessons from the 1990s

Simon Evenett, Margaret Levenstein and Valerie Suslow

2000-08: Incentives and Equity Under Standards-Based Reform

Julian R. Betts and Robert M. Costrell

2000-07: The Determinants of Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne Groves

2000-06: Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

2000-05: The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

2000-04: Walrasian Economics in Retrospect

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

2000-03: Risk Aversion, Insurance, and the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

2000-02: Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality

Herbert Gintis

2000-01: Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-1996

James K. Boyce and Leonce Ndikumana