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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries
Böhme, Marcus - 2013
: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223163
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Barría, Carlos Villalobos - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649697
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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia
Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2015
small amount focuses on the relationship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335511
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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia
Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2016
small amount focuses on the relation-ship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450941
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286634
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319838
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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia
Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2015
small amount focuses on the relationship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337587
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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia
Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2016
small amount focuses on the relation-ship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446666
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Endogenous institutional change and economic development : a micro-level analysis of transmission channels
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
-rural migration flows to geographically well-endowed regions which in turn give rise to migration-induced land scarcity. Land scarcity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255777
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Essays on gender, migration, and development
Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183581