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An explanation of the occupational and educational structure of employment by means of multinomial logit
Peeters, H.M.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990
The fixed coefficient manpower requirements approach provides information on shifts in the occupational and educational structure of employment over time, but neglects the substitution between the various occupations and educational groups. In this study shifts in the structure of 83 occupations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557257
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Some socio-economic determinants of fertility in Pakistan: an empirical analysis
Chani, Muhammad Irfan; Shahid, Muhammad; Hassan, Mahboob Ul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study is aimed at empirical investigation of the role that various socio-economic factors like female education … urbanization, female labour force participation and female education in Pakistan. The analysis indicates that there is negative … relationship between all three determinants with fertility. Female education and urbanization of the society play significant role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111515
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‘Ultramodern contraception’ re-examined: cultural dissent, or son preference?
Husain, Zakir; Ghosh, Saswata; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Literature on family planning considers natural (also called traditional) contraceptives to be ‘ineffective’ because its users are not motivated to control their fertility. While this is true for initial stages of fertility transition, studies have reported that it is women belonging to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260137
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
of individual characteristics (i.e. gender, age, education level, work experience, sector of economic activity, firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401057
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Does microfinance move the households toward self employment?
Khaleque, Abdul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
paper that beyond the asset structure of the households such as landholdings, savings, education, etc., the microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203616
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Deviations from Zipf’s Law for American cities: an empirical examination
Rafael, González-Val - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
among sectors, individuals by level of education, etc.; explicative variables which attempt to capture the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836824
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What makes cities bigger and richer? Evidence from 1990-2000 in the US
González-Val, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with no size restriction (our sample contains data for 21,655 cities). The results show that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980383
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Determinants of farm size expansion among eu farmers
Bartolini, Fabio; Sardonini, Laura; Viaggi, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims to identify the determinants of the intention to expand farm size under two different policy scenarios 1) baseline, that implies the current Health Check policy, and 2) a NO-CAP scenario, providing a full removing of all CAP payments. Results highlight that farm/farmer and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776867
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The Effects of Loan Amounts on Health Care Utilization in Ghana
Ekow Asmah, Emmanuel; Orkoh, Emmanuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Utilization of health care services - both preventive and curative, is among the myriad of important determinants of health and remains an issue of significant policy concern and focus in developing countries. Despite the importance of health care utilization, there is evidence to confirm that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188483
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Determinants of Transitions across Formal/Informal sectors in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel; A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
of education are found to have predictive power in explaining the transitions from formal wage, informal wage, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118522