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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
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Occupational choice of return migrants in Moldova
Borodak, Daniela; Piracha, Matloob - 2010
in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the …
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Motivations for remittances: Evidence from Moldova
Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011
This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova. …
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Crises, what crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis: US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
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Crisis, what crisis? Patterns of adaptation in European labor markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...
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Health and well-being in the crisis
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
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The weight of the crisis: Evidence from newborns in Argentina
Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great Depression. In this article we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but...
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Labor demand during the crisis: What happened in Germany?
Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - 2011
In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms' labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...
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Another economic miracle? The German labor market and the great recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...
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