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Why Don't Labor and Capital Flow Between Young and Old Countries?
an de Meulen, Philipp; Calahorrano, Lena - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009
To counter the effects of population aging in rich industrialized countries, raising immigration from and raising capital exports to younger developing countries are often seen as alternative solutions. In this paper, we explicitly account for mobility constraints in the form of immigration...
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How to Tackle the Gulf of Aden Buccaneers
Calahorrano, Lena; an de Meulen, Philipp - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010
The surge of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden is often related to lawlessness and poverty in Somalia. We set up a simple model to describe the choice of becoming a pirate in a setting with an industrialized and a developing country which both engage in fishing in the same waters. As a result...
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And What About the Family Back Home? International Migration and Happiness
Borraz, Fernando; Pozo, Susan; Rossi, Máximo - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008
In this study we use data on subjective well being and migration in Cuenca, one of the Ecuador's largest cities. We … examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left …
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Do Natural Resource Revenues Hinder Financial Development? The Role of Political Institutions
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Hodler, Roland - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
We theoretically and empirically examine the relationship between natural resource revenues and financial development. In the theoretical part, we present a politico-economic model in which contract enforcement is low and decreasing in resource revenues when political institutions are poor, but...
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The Dynamics of Service Delivery and Agricultural Development in India - A District-Level Analysis -
Raabe, Katharina - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
This paper uses district-level data from India for the Census period 1991-2001 to investigate the nexus between agricultural sector development and service delivery in education, health, transportation, and communication. It asks whether local differences in public service provision cause some...
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Economic Globalisation, Democracy and Income in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Cointegration Analysis
Sakyi, Daniel - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite indicator for economic globalisation and...
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Representation of property rights and credit market outcomes: Evidence from a land reform in Vietnam
Kemper, Niels; Klump, Rainer; Schumacher, Heiner - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
This article evaluates the impact of a land certification program on credit market outcomes in rural Vietnam. We hypothesize that the representation of property increases households' participation in formal credit markets. We compare credit market outcomes for certified and non-certified...
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The Double African Paradox: What does selective mortality tell us?
Rouanet, Léa - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
We study the relationship between height stature and child mortality in West Africa. This is motivated by two things: understanding the determinants of height, widely used health indicator, and explaining the « double African paradox ». This paradox comes from the fact that Africans are...
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, María Emma - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about 78 percent of the world's population. The MPI...
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Risk attitude and risk behavior: Comparing Thailand and Vietnam
Gloede, Oliver; Menkhoff, Lukas; Waibel, Hermann - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
Are responses to a simple survey item sufficiently reliable in eliciting risk attitudes? Our angle in examining reliability is to conduct comparative research across Thailand and Vietnam. We find, first, that the survey item is informative about individual risk attitude because it is plausibly...
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