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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2011

Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...

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Surviving the turbulence is not enough : can Côte d'Ivoire flourish again?

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2011

Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383568

Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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First Palestinian Intifada and intergenerational transmission of human capital

Hallaq, Sameh - 2020

whether formal parental education improves their offspring's cognitive skills and school achievements. I use the instrumental … variable (IV) method in the estimations to overcome the potential endogeneity of parental education. The main source of …

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The geography of intergenerational mobility : evidence of educational persistence and the "Great Gatsby Curve" in Brazil

Leone, Tharcisio - 2019

primary education have a statistically significant reduction in their chance of completing the educational system if they live …

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Is Prescott right?: welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire

Jacobs, Bas - 2008

endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially … unfair pensions further exacerbate labor tax distortions on retirement. Education subsidies can nevertheless cushion the … adverse impact of taxation on skill formation. Feedbacks between education, labor supply, and retirement are important. The …

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Macroeconomic Implications of Demographic Changes: A Global Perspective

Lee, Ronald - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2012

The populations of the World are aging, in both rich and poor countries. Older people work much less than younger adults, and earn far less than their consumption costs. The difference is made up in part by public or private transfers from working age adults, and in part from asset income. As...

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Effects of EU Funded Policies: Net Impact Assessment of Investments in Education and Science in Bulgaria

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Ganev, Kaloyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The main objective of the paper is to provide an estimation of the impact of the investments in education and science …

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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe

Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012

schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …

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Educational Achievement of Second Generation Immigrants: An International Comparison

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Lanzara, Gianadrea - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper investigates the educational achievements of second generation immigrants in several OECD countries in a comparative perspective. We first show that the educational achievement (measured as test scores in PISA achievement tests) of children of immigrants is quite heterogeneous across...

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