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Non-trivial factors as determinants of the environmental taxation revenues in 27 EU countries
Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide; Smirnova, Janna - In: Economies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
information and communication technology (ICT) goods characterised by intensive waste generation. Finally, the importation of …
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Driving factors of the Collaborative Consumption in the European Union scene
Barreiro-Gen, María - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 1 (2018) 1
The defense of unlimited economic growth as the main objective to be achieved has been questioned for decades and with even more intensity in recent years. In this context, the Sharing Economy's initiatives have dramatically increased. This study expands our current understanding of driving...
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Efficiency Analysis of Public Health Spending in Brazilian Capitals Using Network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Lobo, Maria Stella de Castro; Araujo, Edson Correia - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 1 (2017) 4, pp. 147-174
Aim: In 1988, Brazil implemented profound changes in the organization and financing of its public health system, with the creation of the Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saúde - SUS), establishing universal health coverage. The gradual expansion of the health system and entitlements to...
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Frontiers in the economics of crime: Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean
Jaitman, Laura - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-36
Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic and social costs that hinder development. In Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the most violent region on earth, the costs of crime represent at least 3.5% of the regional...
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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother: Evidence from Brazilian data
Narita, Renata; Montoya Diaz, Maria Dolores - In: EconomiA 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252
This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992–2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981–1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...
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Vom Hoffnungsträger zum Problemfall: Lateinamerika verliert den Anschluss – was sind die Ursachen?
Hefeker, Carsten; Boos, Tobias; Brand, Ulrich; Braml, … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 24, pp. 03-23
aufholen konnten. Hingegen sei ein wirtschaftlicher Konvergenzprozess für Chile und Uruguay, die eine starke Integration im … unterstützen. Nach Ansicht von Ingrid Wehr, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Santiago de Chile, sind die hohe Abhängigkeit …
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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
and inequality of these children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates … inequality. …
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Growth, inequality and poverty dynamics in Mexico
Iniguez-Montiel, Alberto Javier; Kurosaki, Takashi - In: Latin American Economic Review 27 (2018) 1, pp. 1-25
, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …
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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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Gestärkt aus der Krise: Potenziale für wissensbasiertes Wachstum
Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 10, pp. 3-7
In seinem einleitenden Beitrag unterstreicht Ludger Wößmann, ifo Institut und LMU, dass Quellen modernen Wachstums in der Wissensgesellschaft bedeuten vor allem Investitionen in den Wissensbestand der Bevölkerung (Bildung), Generierung und Vermarktung neuen Wissens (Innovation) und...
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