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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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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262083
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Institutional determinants of new firm entry in Russia: a cross regional analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2008
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268605
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822293
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822639
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762176
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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