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Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Grogan, Louise - 2018

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule …

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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration : Empirical Evidence on the 'Left Behind' Generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 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 …

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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation

Pages, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2021

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....

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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 …

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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions ﾖ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ﾖ has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...

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Institutions and Entry : A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia

Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2011

We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Good and Bad Institutions : Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2011

Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...

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Institutions and Economic Performance : What Can Be Explained?

Commander, Simon John - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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