Browsing by Author "Gibson, John"

• Accounting for selectivity and duration-dependent heterogeneity when estimating the impact of emigration on incomes and poverty in sending areas 

  Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)

  The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly studied with household survey data. But comparing households with and without emigrants is complicated by a ...

  

• Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS): Development impacts in the first two years 

  Gibson, John; McKenzie, David (University of Waikato, 2011-06)

  Australia launched the Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme in August 2008. This program was designed to alleviate labor shortages for the Australian horticultural industry by providing opportunities for workers from ...

  

• Australia's PSWPS: Development impacts in the first two years 

  Gibson, John; McKenzie, David (Wiley, 2011)

  This research note presents an analysis of the development impacts of Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme. We estimate the gain per participating household to be approximately A$2600, which is a 39% increase ...

• Can we trust cluster-corrected standard errors? An application of spatial autocorrelation with exact locations known 

  Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Olivia, Susan (Waikato Management School, 2010-11)

  Standard error corrections for clustered samples impose untested restrictions on spatial correlations. Our example shows these are too conservative, compared with a spatial error model that exploits information on exact ...

  

• China's energy economy: A survey of the literature 

  Ma, Hengyun; Oxley, Les; Gibson, John (Elsevier, 2010)

  This paper reviews the literature on China's energy economy, focusing, particularly on: i) the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth; ii), China's changing energy intensity; iii) energy demand and ...

• The sensitivity of poverty analysis to dimensionality and distribution sensitivity: Evidence from district level of Pakistan 

  Najam, Zaira (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  An awareness of how the findings from poverty analyses may change following introduction of multidimensional poverty measures is crucial for policy makers. This thesis highlights the changes in results of poverty analysis ...

  

• The informal sector’s contribution to the economic wellbeing of people in Timor-Leste 

  Mau-Quei, Helio Augusto da Costa Xavier (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  It is widely believed that the informal sector is growing in the modern global economy. When studying who occupies this informal sector and the nature of their business, the universal tendency is to describe the informal ...

  

• Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal 

  Sharma, Hari (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  A growing literature studies the causes and consequences of civil conflict. Several of these studies are of Nepal’s civil conflict that lasted for a decade from 1996. Coincident with this conflict was a surge in work-related ...

  

• Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh 

  Zaman, Begum Meherunnessa (The University of Waikato, 2002)

  Over the last quarter century, the readymade garments industry has emerged as the main export-earning manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing ...

  

• Trends in the factor markets and their effects on labour absorption: A study on the Sri Lankan manufacturing industry 

  Patabendige, Ananda Jasenthu (The University of Waikato, 2004)

  Nearly one in ten labour force participants is out of work in Sri Lanka currently. This unemployment rate is much higher than that of most countries in the Asian region which have been following economic policies similar ...

  

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