We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...

In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...

This paper estimates NAIRU (Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment) for the Turkish economy by systems approach, which includes an Okun-type relationship between output gap and unemployment gap, a Phillips curve equation, stochastic laws of motion for NAIRU and potential output and...

Education is admitted to be one of the fundamental determinants of social and economic progress of any nation. In particular, the quantity and quality of education may have significant effect on economic growth. The research attempted to determine the existence of correlation between...

Part of a larger research, this paper aims to point out several key elements of the productivity in the field of services, with application to the intellect-intensive ones: the main concern is for educational services.Methodologically, the paper starts with the framing in the context of the...

This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally representative School-to-Work Transition survey carried out in 2006 in Mongolia, one of the 50...

This paper looks at the well-being of children in transition economies in the light of greater economic integration. The different stages of integration of the transition economies into the world economy are marked by substantial variations in trade and capital flows. International labour...