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 …

: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and …

relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that … because of an adequate social environment with little inequality, that may be associated with economic well-being. …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy and it increases the … that democracies are ineffective, regardless of joblessness. People's beliefs about the effectiveness of democracy as …

We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors … as with institutional environment and firm size. Furthermore, industries that, for scale or technological reasons, are … democracy enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones. …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …