levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … states from 1980-2011, we find that 100 unit increase in child sex ratio is associated with 0.635% increase in illegal … state. We find that association between child sex ratio and illegal trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude …

A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions … of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …

unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative …

requirements of jobs in Estonia during the years 1997-2003. We find large wage penalties associated with the phenomenon of …

turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We … unemployment compared to Estonia during the period of EU enlargement. Traditional labor market institutions (wage rigidity and …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … opportunities. -- labour market reforms ; search model ; Estonia ; OECD countries …

demonstrate that the two largest ethnolinguistic groups in Estonia tend to behave as 'parallel populations' and that residential … integration in Estonia is therefore slow. …

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …