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Legal Status, Remittances and Socio-Economic Impacts on Rural Household in Bangladesh : An Empirical Study of Bangladeshi Migrants in Italy
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul - 2014
integration, describing the most frequent migration pathways employed by Bangladeshis in Italy. It discusses their migration … results suggest that there is economic variation between the documented and undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Italy. While … processes. It concludes with a discussion of the socio-cultural integration of the Bangladeshi migrants in Italy and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046316
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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany: evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998
Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the German Laender (states) that allows us to exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297584
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Local Determinants of Crime: Distinguishing Between Resident and Non-resident Offenders
Spengler, Hannes; Büttner, Thiess - 2003
The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non-resident offenders. Employing data for German municipalities, the model is estimated by means of a spatial GMM approach. Focusing on resident offenders legal earnings opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298131
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Local Determinants of Crime: Distinguishing between Resident and Non-resident Offenders
Büttner, Thiess; Spengler, Hannes - 2003
The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non-resident offenders. Employing data for German municipalities, the model is estimated by means of a spatial GMM approach. Focusing on resident offenders legal earnings opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323723
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Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004
The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261784
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Orphanhood and critical periods in children's human capital formation: Long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania
Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
Losing a parent is a trauma that has consequences for human capital formation. Does it matter at what age this trauma occurs? Using longitudinal data from the Kagera region in Tanzania that span thirteen years from 1991-2004, we find considerable impact heterogeneity across age at bereavement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277949
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Subjective well-being and the family: Results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004
The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315600
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Is welfare dependency inherited? Estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data
Edmark, Karin; Hanspers, Kajsa - 2011
This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321157
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Orphanhood and critical periods in children’s human capital formation : long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania
Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
Losing a parent is a trauma that has consequences for human capital formation. Does it matter at what age this trauma occurs? Using longitudinal data from the Kagera region in Tanzania that span thirteen years from 1991-2004, we find considerable impact heterogeneity across age at bereavement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008659371
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Youth unemployment in Greece : measuring the challenge
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional definition of "youth" is the 16-24 age group, there is a strong case for considering 25 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533317