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A Human Development Index by Internal Migration Status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507024
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Essays in development economics : democracy and education
Idzalika, Rajius - 2016
Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570579
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A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219559
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Counting missing women: A reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young children. In contrast, `flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it is among children in India and China, and is larger in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000392
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Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it is among children in India and China, and is larger in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296522
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315199
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262445
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Pro-poor growth and gender inequality
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
This paper examines to what extent gender gaps in education, health, employment, productive assets and inputs can affect pro poor growth (in the sense of increasing monetary incomes of the poor). After discussing serious methodological problems with examining gender issues in the context of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265077
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Missing women: some recent controversies on levels and trends in gender bias in mortality
Klasen, Stephan - 2008
This paper discusses two recent controversies surrounding levels and trends in the number of missing women in the world. First, the impact of fertility decline on gender bias in mortality is examined. Contrary to the expectations of some authors, fertility decline has not generally led to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265703
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The impact of demographic dynamics on economic development, poverty and inequality in Mozambique
Klasen, Stephan; Woltermann, Silke - 2005
In this paper, we analyze whether current demographic dynamics in Mozambique are likely to reduce per capita growth and poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266846