Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...

This study explored the linkage between financial development, human resources, and economic growth in a group of twenty-five transition countries during the period 1995-2019. The author applied a range of estimations such as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), fixed effects model, and two-step GMM...

Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, die Ursachen und Konsequenzen von menschlichem Verhalten mittels empirischer Forschungsmethoden zu untersuchen. Obwohl die einzelnen Kapitel sehr unterschiedliche Themen behandeln, verbindet sie das Ziel, einen kausalen Mechanismus zu identifizieren oder...

In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection equation and the equation of interest contain individual effects which are correlated with the explanatory variables. We review and compare some of these estimators, and apply...