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Remittances and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Albania
Kalaj, Ermira Hoxha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using household survey data for Albania, this study compare decision-making about human capital investment in remittance-receiving households and non-remittance-receiving households. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to capture the effects of remittances. The crucial assumption in the...
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Labor Market Outcomes, Savings Accumulation, and Return Migration
Kirdar, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper, I test the savings accumulation conjecture that is used to rationalize return migration decisions in the context of immigrants in Germany. Using cross-country and time variation in purchasing power parity, I distinguish between the two competing capital accumulation conjectures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617108
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Forecasting Bankruptcy with Incomplete Information
Xu, Xin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We propose new specifications that explicitly account for information noise in the input data of bankruptcy hazard models. The specifications are motivated by a theory of modeling credit risk with incomplete information (Duffie and Lando [2001]). Based on over 2 million firm-months of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108267
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Forecasting Distress in European SME Portfolios
Ferreira Filipe, Sara; Grammatikos, Theoharry; Michala, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the European Union, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99% of all businesses and contribute to more than half of the total value-added. In this paper, we develop distress prediction models for SMEs using a dataset from eight European countries over the period 2000-2009. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109573
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Labor market outcomes, capital accumulation, and return migration: Evidence from immigrants in Germany
Kirdar, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I test the capital accumulation conjecture that is used to rationalize return migration decisions in the context of immigrants in Germany and examine how labor market outcomes influence return migration decisions, with particular attention to selection in these outcomes in return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790076
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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty in Chile Using the National Socio Economic Characterization Panel Survey for 1996, 2001, 2006
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212954
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Deprivation profile in Cameroon: A combined analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275134
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …
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Trade Liberalisation and Spatial Inequality: Methodological Innovations in Vietnamese Perspective
Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
household expenditures and the possibility of computing poverty measures at a very disaggregate level. As such, we aim at … contributing with methodological advances in the assessment of the poverty impact of macro-policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253059