{"title":"The welfare impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the Philippine labor market using the CGE-microsimulation approach","authors":"Cymon Kayle Lubangco, Philip Arnold P. Tuaño","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2024.2305323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2024.2305323","url":null,"abstract":"Global exogenous shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, challenge the capacities of economies to cushion their welfare impacts. Such shocks translate to macroeconomic slowdowns, labor market contra...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139678754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosna Awang Hashim, Hock-Eam Lim, Mohd Fairuz Jafar, S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam, Nurliyana Bukhari
{"title":"Statistical identification of predictors of dropout in secondary education: evidence from Malaysia","authors":"Rosna Awang Hashim, Hock-Eam Lim, Mohd Fairuz Jafar, S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam, Nurliyana Bukhari","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2024.2306673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2024.2306673","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of school dropout has been long rooted in Malaysia. To address this issue effectively, further insight into the predictors of the school dropout and the early statistical identification o...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"0 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ranpati Dewage Thilini Sumudu Kumari, Sam Hak Kan Tang
{"title":"Identifying the sources of economic growth in Sri Lanka under trade liberalization: the primal and dual total factor productivity growth","authors":"Ranpati Dewage Thilini Sumudu Kumari, Sam Hak Kan Tang","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2024.2306046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2024.2306046","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the sources of economic growth in Sri Lanka for the period during which it implemented a liberalized trade policy. We first calculate the primal and dual total factor productivity growth...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free trade agreements (FTAs) and export structures: evidence from Thailand","authors":"Juthathip Jongwanich","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2023.2300584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2023.2300584","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the role of (in-effect) FTAs in influencing export structures, defined as intensive margin, extensive margin (products and markets) and sophistication at product leve...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139495702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement and spatial-temporal convergence analysis of high-quality development of service industry: new city-level evidence in China","authors":"Penglong Li, Yongze Yu, Ye Xuan","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2023.2295741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2023.2295741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139159434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational feminization, gender, and wages: evidence from Thailand","authors":"S. Paweenawat, Lusi Liao","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2023.2295774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2023.2295774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"18 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138944694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rim Oueghlissi, Sy-Hoa Ho, Tuan Nguyen-Anh, Riadh El Ferktaji
{"title":"Do flexible exchange rates matter for monetary autonomy?","authors":"Rim Oueghlissi, Sy-Hoa Ho, Tuan Nguyen-Anh, Riadh El Ferktaji","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2023.2287859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2023.2287859","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the impact of exchange rate regimes on monetary autonomy, by applying a propensity score matching (PSM) model for 174 countries over the period 1970–2017. The PSM technique, that...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"72 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards equitable healthcare provision: convergence of public health spending and the role of decentralization in Malaysia","authors":"Yusniliyana Yusof, Kazi Arif Uz Zaman","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2023.2285579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2023.2285579","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the behavior of public health spending across different states in Malaysia, focusing on the convergence of per capita spending and the impact of decentralization on health e...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA): economic progress, diversification, and convergence","authors":"Vinh Q. T. Dang, Fung Kwan, Agnes I. F. Lam","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2023.2284021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2023.2284021","url":null,"abstract":"We use principal component analysis to create three indices that measure the economic development of eleven cities in the Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) over 2010–2019. The in...","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"86 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}