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Strategic fertility behaviour, early childhood human capital investments and gender roles in Albania
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2018
Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947732
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Return migration and occupational choice
Piracha, Matloob (contributor); Vadean, Florin (contributor) - 2009
positive impact of migration on job creating activities in Albania. -- Occupational choice ; return migration ; sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793961
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Children’s schooling and parental migration : empirical evidence on the “left behind” generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2010
in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … –mainly by fathers – is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households’ incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958917
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Circular migration or permanent return : what determines different forms of migration?
Vadean, Florin P.; Piracha, Matloob - 2009
This paper addresses the following questions: To what extent do the socio-economic characteristics of circular/repeat migrants differ from migrants who return permanently to the home country after their first trip (i.e. return migrants)? and What determines each of these distinctive temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872718
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No education, no good jobs? : Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen (contributor); Stampini, Marco (contributor) - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003603607
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Shaking things up : on the stability of risk and time preferences
Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud; Joxhe, … - 2020
We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194877
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Individual poverty measurement using a fuzzy intrahousehold approach
Betti, Gianni; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - 2017
near the poverty line. The proposed approach is applied to the analysis of individual poverty in Albania, finding an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732008
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Son targeting fertility behavior in Albania
Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada - 2022
The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168201
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Decomposing male inequality change in East Germany during transition
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper studies the cause of the changes in male wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in the characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413453
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The global demography of aging : facts, explanations, future
Bloom, David E.; Luca, Dara Lee - 2016
Population ageing is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are causing elder shares to rise throughout the world. The phenomenon of population ageing, which is unprecedented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528111