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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
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Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children’s Quality
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … effects on average child quality. Children from larger families have accumulated almost 1 year less of education, are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822922
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Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs
Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … enrollment is of particular concern because of the critical role that education plays in increasing human capital and …. First, we show that children living in municipality with high conflict have a gap in education enrollment and accumulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283577
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Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake
Bustelo, Monserrat; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649818
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón-Mejía, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Nopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560400
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822814
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240233
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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212574