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Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice
Townsend, Robert - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523421
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The consequences of child labor : evidence from longitudinal data in rural Tanzania
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2008
"This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as instrumental variables for child labor. For boys, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521082
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Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis
Keefer, Philip - 2004
"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522896
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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394185
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The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems : some insights from recent household survey data
Barbone, Luca - 2009
2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394193
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel - 2009
norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394219
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Race, immigration, and the U.S. labor market : contrasting the outcomes of foreign born and native blacks
Walque, Damien de - 2008
interaction between race and immigration. The study compares the labor market outcomes of four racial groups in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521022
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The Malaysia-Indonesia remittance corridor : making formal transfers the best option for women and undocumented migrants
Hernández-Coss, Raúl (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521355
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International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Philippine migrants' exchange rate shocks
Yang, Dean - 2005
the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and … lead to greater entry into relatively capital-intensive enterprises by migrants' origin households. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522622
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The epidemiological impact of an HIV vaccine on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern India
Nagelkerke, Nico J. D. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523456