Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 36 Issue 6

Does marriage pay more than cohabitation?

Katherin Barg, Miriam Beblo

Empirical research has unambiguously shown that married men receive higher wages than unmarried, whereas a wage premium for cohabiters is not as evident yet. This paper aims to…

Overcoming the limitations of efficiency modeling in the health care foodservice industry

A. Assaf, K.M. Matawie

This paper aims to reflect on the sources of the technical inefficiency of health care foodservice operations, using a sample of Australian and American hospitals.

Transient products but persistent trade patterns

James Cassing, Steven Husted

This paper aims to combine the authors' findings of widespread bilateral trade‐share persistence with some recent empirical evidence of substantial and rapid volatility in the…

Impure public goods and technological interdependencies

Andreas Löschel, Dirk T.G. Rübbelke

This paper aims to investigate empirically the findings of an analytical impure public good model. The impure public good model described in this study allows for the application…

Currency substitution in selected African countries

Assandé Désiré Adom, Subhash C. Sharma, A.K.M. Mahbub Morshed

This paper aims to investigate the presence of currency substitution in eight African countries.

Too much R&D? – vertical differentiation and monopolistic competition

Jan Kranich

This paper aims to discuss whether product research and development (R&D) in developed economies tends to be too high compared with the socially desired level.

Tax evasion and financial repression: a reconsideration using endogenous growth models

Rangan Gupta, Emmanuel Ziramba

This paper aims at developing a theoretical model of a world economy characterized by tax evasion. It seeks to analyze whether financial repression can be explained by tax evasion.

Economic convergence of income distribution worldwide from 1986 to 2000

Jhon James Mora Rodriguez, José Javier Núñez Velázquez

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of Markovian transitions related to the economic convergence among countries. Thus, the paper aims to develop an overview of…