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The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality : oportunidades in Mexico

McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra E. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings … inequality. -- oportunidades ; human capital ; schooling ; health ; poverty ; inequality …

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Student mobility in low quality schools : segmentation among the most vulnerable students

Román, Marcela; Perticará, Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 159-177

This study addresses the phenomenon of permanence for long years of low performance (urban) schools, measured by SIMCE. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student ?s mobility rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of...

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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...

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Una aplicación de los árboles de expansión mínima y árboles jerárquicos al estudio de la convergencia interregional en dinámica de regímenes

Brida, Juan Gabriel; London, Silvia; Rojas, Mara - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 3-28

This paper studies the regional convergence of sub-national states in the case of Mercosur from 1961 to 2005 by using a non-parametric technique of clustering under the concept of \regime of performance". In the first section, a review in interregional convergence is shown for the Mercosur case....

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El estudio de casos como metodología de investigación científica en dirección y economía de la empresa : una aplicación a la internacionalización

Villarreal Larrinaga, O.; Landeta Rodríguez, J. - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 16 (2010) 3, pp. 31-52

Management, as a social science, and Strategic Management, as a specific scientific discipline of this science, require research methodologies that can deal with all of the complexities of the business phenomena to be analysed. Certain circumstances call for methodologies that can combine...

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Keiner kommt an Spanien vorbei : außer dem Zufall

Gerhards, Jürgen; Mutz, Michael; Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 24, pp. 14-20

Anlässlich der Fußballweltmeisterschaft 2006 hatte das DIW Berlin zusammen mit der Freien Universität Berlin erstmals den Transfer- Marktwert der Mannschaften als ein einfaches und transparentes Kriterium für die Prognose der Ergebnisse großer Fußball-Turniere vorgeschlagen. Und...

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Some considerations on the challenges to the economic science

Doroftei, Irina Mădălina - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 3 (2012) 1, pp. 20-27

The recent crisis of 2008 has revealed several challenges for the economic science, sparking a considerable amount of debate regarding the profession of economists and the role of macroeconomics and monetary policies. The first question that arose was why there was a lack of anticipation of the...

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Returns on investment of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria

Bosede, Adegboye Folasade; Olusegun, Olowe; … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 195-206

This paper provides an in-depth study on the history and evolution of Commercial Bank characteristic factors and other Macroeconomic variables on the financial industry performance indices in Nigeria from 1977 to 2010. The work employed a 3-stage procedure in the assessment of Commercial Bank...

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Modeling labor supply through duality and the Slutsky equation

Ivanov, Ivan; Dobreva, Julia - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 111-122

In the present paper an analysis of the neo-classical optimization model with linear constraints is proposed. By introducing the dual problem it is shown that the solution to the maximization problem is also a solution to the minimization problem. The purely theoretical model proposes a...

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Una aproximación a la construcción de un indicador de pobreza multidimensional : cuáles son los focos de riesgo en España?

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 43-72

The aim of this paper is to construct a multidimensional poverty indicator, to detect the main poverty risk focuses in … poverty ; indicator ; factor analysis …

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