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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/10010269829
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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/10012207765
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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/10013177763
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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/10011744721
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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the "Left Behind" Generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008536010
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 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/10010268182
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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/10010269514
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Return migration and occupational choice
Piracha, Matloob; Vadean, Florin P. - 2009
positive impact of migration on job creating activities in Albania. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276909
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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment : A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands
Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - 2004
In this paper we investigate the dynamic adjustment of labour and capital in German and Dutch firms. The Dutch labour market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional differences imply that employment dynamics in the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261963
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262267