EconomiA: Volume 23 Issue 1 , Open Access

Learning together: the effects of inclusion of students with disabilities in mainstream schools

Aline Krüger Dalcin

This article aims to analyze the impact that the inclusion of students with disabilities has on the achievement of their schoolmates and to analyze the impact that this inclusion…

Is there a long-run relationship between the unemployment insurance and the labor force participation rate in the USA? A nonlinear analysis

Haydory Akbar Ahmed

This paper explores the evidence of a long-run co-movement between aggregate unemployment insurance spending and the labor force participation rate in the USA. The unemployment…

Using a consumption function to explain the Lucas Critique to undergraduate students

Cleomar Gomes da Silva, Fábio Augusto Reis Gomes

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the teaching of undergraduate macroeconomics.

Regional business cycles and manufacturing productivity: empirical evidence in Colombia

Andres Mauricio Gomez Sanchez, Juliana Isabel Sarmiento-Castillo, Claudia Liceth Fajardo-Hoyos

The aim of this paper is to disentangle the contemporaneous and non-contemporaneous relationship between regional business cycles and manufacturing productivity in a developing…

The impact of international trade on the price of solar photovoltaic modules: empirical evidence

Ivan Hajdukovic

Over the past decades, the global solar photovoltaic (PV) market has experienced an unprecedented development associated with a substantial decline in solar PV module prices. A…

Monetary policy channels, sectoral outputs and sustainable growth in the ECOWAS region: a rigorous analysis and implications for policy

Anthony Orji, Davidmac Olisa Ekeocha, Jonathan E. Ogbuabor, Onyinye I. Anthony-Orji

The market-based monetary policy framework has been favoured by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) economies. Hence, this study aims to investigate the effect of…

The sensitivity of the Gini to changes in group sizes and mean incomes: an extension of ANOGI applied to Brazil

Pedro Mendes Loureiro

The purpose of this paper is to first develop indicators for how total inequality, measured through the ANalysis Of GIni (ANOGI) framework, is mapped onto each group – i.e…

Intergovernmental transfers to the Brazilian unified health system and party alignment

Veronica Ines Fernandez Orellano, Taís Cardoso Tellini

This study investigates the impact of political alignment on intergovernmental transfers to the Brazilian unified health system (SUS). The authors analyzed both automatic…