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Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
Majbouri, Mahdi - 2018
Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female … force participation in Iran. Policy implications are discussed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915183
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Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2022
unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084034
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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2009
effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …, which could be partly due to the relatively underdeveloped nature of Iran's financial markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154980
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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
Dreger, Christian - 2014
per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the … for Iran, long run equations for GDP and investment per capita are distinguished for the Gulf countries. Both variables … elasticities for the Gulf states exceed their Iranian counterparts. In addition, investment in Iran does not react to oil revenues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055567
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A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240358
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Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines
Abrigo, Michael R.M. - 2019
This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences methods, we find that the expansion increases insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857707
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Persuasive Agenda-Setting : Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Jetter, Michael - 2020
Can democratically elected politicians persuade their constituents to alter policy priorities? With little empirical support for this hypothesis to date, we propose that Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration speech on June 30, 2016 systematically shifted the Filipinos' policy agenda toward prioritizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839063
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The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers
Beam, Emily - 2017
Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963834
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Impact of the 2008-2009 Food, Fuel, and Financial Crisis on the Philippine Labor Market
Rodgers, Yana - 2015
This study examines how the 2008-2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market, with a focus on gendered outcomes. A battery of descriptive statistics and probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037385
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International Migration Opportunities and Occupational Choice : A Case Study of Philippine Nurses 2002 to 2014
Arends-Kuenning, Mary - 2015
We analyze trends in nursing education in the Philippines during a period of rising and falling demand for Philippine nurses in the developed countries. Based on focus group discussion data obtained in the Philippines, we examine students' motivations to become nurses and to what extent their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026851