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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

Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods...

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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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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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The influence of demographical and professional characteristics on managers’ risk taking propensity

Pavic, Ivan; Vojinic, Perica - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 171-184

The purpose of this paper is to determine in what way certain demographic and professional characteristics influence managerial risk taking. The research is conducted using the questionnaire on a sample of middle and top level managers employed in small, medium and large Croatian hospitality...

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Die Weitergabe von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und intellektuellen Fähigkeiten von Eltern an ihre Kinder

Anger, Silke - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 29, pp. 3-12

Die Studie untersucht für Deutschland, in welchem Ausmaß intellektuelle Fähigkeiten und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Eltern an ihre Kinder im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter weitergegeben werden. Auf Basis repräsentativer Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt sich, dass...

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Within the context of changing role of the state assessment of incentive policies applied after 1980 in Turkey

Engin, Fevzi - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 175-189

future. -- investment incentive ; tax incentives ; financial incentives ; priority regions for development ; SMEs (small and …

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument and brings to light some important similarities. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic...

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Performance comparison between Dollar Cost Averaging and Value Averaging Investment Strategies and the impacts of investment horizon and target terminal wealth

Panyagometh, Kamphol - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 15-27

analyzing the impacts of investment horizon and target terminal wealth on the performance of the Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA …) investment strategy in comparison with the Value Averaging (VA) investment strategy. According to the findings, with increased … length of investment horizon and/or lowered target terminal wealth, the Value Averaging (VA) investment strategy will have …

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Wege zu einem höheren Wachstumspfad

Bach, Stefan; Baldi, Guido; Bernoth, Kerstin; Bremer, Björn - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 26, pp. 6-17

investment rate has been falling for a long time and is still low by international standards. The calculations in this study … indicate that Germany has shown an annual investment gap of three percent on average since 1999. This means that Germany needs … average investment gap of around 75 billion euros each year. Calculations by DIW Berlin for the purposes of this study …

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