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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...

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Southern enlargement of the European Union and capital account liberalization: Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe

Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P.; Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The integration of the central and eastern European countries into the international capital markets has been and will be determined by the process of European Union (EU) integration. Our analysis shows that southern and eastern European countries already appear to be surprisingly similar...

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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan...

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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries

Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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The Welfare Costs of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe: An Empirical Assessment Using the Economic Value-of-Life Approach

Fimpel, Julia; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

Based on the aggregation of individual willingness-to-pay for a statistical life, we calibrate an intertemporal optimization model to determine the aggregate welfare losses from HIV/AIDS in 25 Eastern European countries. Assuming a discount rate of three percent, we find a total welfare loss for...

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Labour market returns to higher education in Vietnam

Doan, Tinh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper employs the Ordinary Least Squares, Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect models to a new dataset from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to the four-year university education in 2008. Our estimates reveal that the return to university...

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Evolution of competition in Vietnam industries over the recent economic transition

Doan, Tinh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Understanding the degree and evolution of competition across industries is an important step towards understanding the impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the author investigates the evolution of competition in...

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Zur Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Probleme und Lösungsansätze in der deutschen Literatur

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland seit den siebziger Jahren. Es wird … untersucht, ob die Arbeitslosenversicherung dazu beigetragen hat, die Arbeitslosigkeit zu senken. Die deskriptive Analyse und …>The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS has done nothing to prevent …

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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung, Das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die … großen Teil an der Nachfrage nach Arbeit ansetzt. <p>Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of … the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative …

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Zur Einführung privater Arbeitslosenversicherungen in Deutschland

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

System der Absicherung von Arbeitslosigkeit zu einem individualistischen Trennsystem zu bewältigen. Zunächst wird die … unemployment insurance, using data of the year 2000. It is shown how much the individual employee would have to invest for a … variety of unemployment payments and for a variety of individual "real" risks. In addition, it is demonstrated that each …

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