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"I wish i had 100 dollars a month ...": The intergenerational transfer of poverty in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
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 poorest countries of the world. A young person born in a household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282397
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Labor Mobility Across The Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence From Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324359
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Biases in Willingness-To-Pay Measures from Multinomial Logit Estimates due to Unobserved Heterogeneity
van den Berg, Vincent; Kroes, Eric; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2010
It is a common finding in empirical discrete choice studies that the estimated mean relative values of the coefficients (i.e. WTP's) from multinomial logit (MNL) estimations differ from those calculated using mixed logit estimations, where the mixed logit has the better statistical fit. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325745
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Estimation of Labour Supply in New Zealand
Mercante, Joseph; Mok, Penny - 2014
In this paper we estimate labour supply using a discrete choice approach for single men, single women and single parents and a joint labour supply equation for couples in New Zealand. The data are based on pooled cross-sectional data from the Household Economic Survey over 2006/07 to 2010/11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115675
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Contagion between European and US banks: Evidence from equity prices
Fricke, Daniel - 2010
This paper employs an Extreme Value Theory framework to investigate the existence of contagion between European and US banks. The fact that many regulators have no detailed data sets about interbank cross-exposures raises the necessity of finding market-based indicators in order to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274429
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Oznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500199
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: Evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysit; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282377
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Institutionalizing IWRM in developing and transition countries: The case of Mongolia
Horlemann, Lena; Dombrowsky, Ines - 2010
particular challenges of multi-level governance. Against this background a case study of Mongolia was carried out, a transition … and stakeholder interviews were carried out in order understand progress and problems of introducing IWRM in Mongolia in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304387
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Urban water supply and sanitation in Mongolia: A description of the political, legal, and institutional framework
Sigel, Katja - 2012
parts of the developing world. This also holds for Mongolia. Current data suggests that Mongolia may not meet the Millennium … improving urban water supply and sanitation in Mongolia. A special focus is placed on domestic consumers, notably the peri …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307922
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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271285