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Are Remittances Spent in a Healthy Way? Evidence from Albania
Kalaj, Ermira Hoxha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using household survey data for Albania, the paper investigates the effect of remittances on health capital … variable and propensity score matching are used to give answer to the research question about the impact of remittances in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111067
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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 … effects of remittances. The crucial assumption in the proportional hazard model is that the effect of the covariates is … characteristics, parental schooling, household income and the presence of remittances. In the model, household incomes are considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258591
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Modest expectations: Causes and effects of migration on migrant households in source countries
Hagen-Zanker, Jessica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This research, mainly looking at Albania and Moldova, investigates the reasons why people migrate internationally and … send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873555
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Fertility treatments and the use of twin births as an instrument for fertility
Braakmann, Nils; Wildman, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments, potentially causing twin births to be endogenous and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260898
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Improving customer churn models as one of customer relationship management business solutions for the telecommunication industry
Slavescu, Ecaterina; Panait, Iulian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Nowadays, when companies are dealing with severe global competition, they are making serious investments in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategies. One of the cornerstones in CRM is customer churn prediction, the practice of determining a mathematical relation between customer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107251
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The Mean Reversion Stochastic Processes Applications in Risk Management
Radkov, Petar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this study we investigate using the mean reversion processes in financial risk management, as they provide an good description of stock price uctuations and market risks. This paper does not aim at being exhaustive, but gives examples for practically implementable models allowing for stylised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107602
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Military Expenditure, Endogeneity and Economic Growth
d'Agostino, Giorgio; Dunne, John Paul; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The debate over the economic effects of military spending continues to develop, with no consensus, but a deepening understanding of the issues and limitations of previous work. A recent survey has suggested that the inclusion of post Cold War data has tended to make finding a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108680
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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109090
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Environmental Quality and Economic Growth: A Panel Analysis of the "U" in Kuznets
F. Akpan, Usenobong; E. Abang, Dominic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The primary motivation behind this study was to search for evidence of the link between environmental quality and economic growth so as to answer the relevant question of whether economic growth alone could serve as a long-run solution to environmental damage as implied by EKC hypothesis. Here...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110297
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Some estimates for income elasticities of leisure activities in the United States
González Chapela, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The empirical classification of leisure activities into luxuries, necessities, or inferior activities is useful for predicting the impact of economic development or life-cycle variations in wages on the organization of people’s leisure. We take a step in that direction. We present theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111168