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Micro-level Evidence on the Survival of German Manufacturing Industries - A Multidimensional Analysis
Schindele, Yvonne; Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
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Impact of an Affimative Action Program in Employment on Child Mortality in India
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Gupta, Sumedha - 2010
We evaluate whether a major affirmative action program for a deprived caste in India has affected infant and child mortality rates among the target caste. The program reserves a substantial fraction of public sector jobs for those from the deprived caste and was implemented on September 8, 1993....
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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie - 2006
(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …
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Are social exclusion and poverty measures interrelated? A study with Spanish data
Calvo, José L.; Sánchez, Cristina; Cortiñas, Pedro - 2012
One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes … three indicators to calculate it: people at risk-of-poverty after social transfers (persons are at risk of poverty if their …
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Socio-economic inequality in South Africa according to different disparity indices
Hakizimana, Jean-Mari; Geyer, Hermanus - 2014
The purpose of the paper is to identify areas in South Africa where social-economic disparity exists using 2011 census data. Different indices are used to measure spatial disparity with the aim of finding the most appropriate approach for measuring disparities under different circumstances. The...
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Delays in Sovereign Debt Restructurings. Should we really blame the creditors?
Trebesch, Christoph - 2008
Disorderly debt restructurings can be detrimental for debtor countries and creditors alike. This paper investigates delays in sovereign debt restructurings using a comprehensive new dataset since 1980. Why are some debt crises settled in just a few months, while others take many years? Have...
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Modelling Rating Transitions
Weißbach, Rafael; Mollenhauer, Thomas - 2011
The time-continuous discrete-state Markov process is a model for rating transitions. One parameter, namely the intensity to migrate to an adjacent rating state, implies an ordinal rating to have an intuitive metric. State-specific intensities generalize the state-stationarity. Observing Markov...
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The Cyclicality of the Stepping Stone Effect of Temporary Agency Employment
Jahn, Elke Jutta; Rosholm, Michael - 2015
This paper investigates whether the stepping stone effect of temporary agency employment moves over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the period 1985-2012 and an estimation framework based on the timing-events model, we construct a time series of in-treatment and...
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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective
Sarmento, Elsa Morais; Nunes, Alcina - 2010
We address the post-entry performance of new Portuguese firms by investigating the structural characteristics survival, using both non-parametric methods and semi-parametric methods, for the seven regions of Portugal (NUT II). We also provide a disaggregated analysis by sector and size class,...
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