Moroccan manufacturing firms generally choose to incorporate under one of two legalforms: ‘Société Anonyme’ (SA) and ‘Société À Responsibilité Limitée’ (SARL). This thesis is about that choice and its consequence for firms’ access to bank overdraft facilities.In 2001, Morocco...

This thesis is a collection of three essays with contributions to the intergenerational and intra-generational mobility literature. The essay on full risk insurance and measurement error examines the likelihood that measurement error may reconcile observed departures from perfect rank immobility...

This study first offers a brief literature survey of labor market discrimination due to ethnicity against the indigenous and Afro-descendant population in Ecuador, a largely mestizo country. We use ethnic self-identification reported in the 2000 EMEDINHO survey as a proxy for ethnicity. Next, we...

This dissertation studies labor earnings mobility in the short-run and the structure of labor markets in urban Mexico, from 1987 to 2002.In the first part it gauges the average earnings mobility in the economy and whether mobility equalized longer-term earnings. It also analyzes whether the...

Mit dem Ende der Kolonialzeit wuchs die Zahl unabhängiger Staaten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg rasant an. Trotz der Tatsache, dass die neu entstandenen Staaten ein hohes Maß an Heterogenität aufweisen, verbindet sie ihre zumeist ausgesprochen geringe Größe, die in vielen Fällen kaum...

The thesis addresses the question of how poverty can be overcome by education. The starting point is the following type of poverty trap: poverty forces parents to send their children to work to secure the survival of the household. Due to child labor, children do not attend school and do not...

Agriculture remains a key component of economic development, but the methodology for how development policies are determined has changed for developing countries. In the last decade, the focus of economic growth in developing countries has shifted from country-wide prescriptions to testable...

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen die kulturellen Ursachen f?r die Marginalisierung des indigenen Volkes der Papua im modernen ?konomischen Bereich der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Den theoretischen Hintergrund der Arbeit bilden Schumpeters Entwicklungslogik und die darauf aufbauende...