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Children's schooling and parental migration: Empirical evidence on the 'left behind' generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2010

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … -mainly by fathers - is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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How reliable are income data collected with a single question?

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2007

Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals are asked about the household total rather than own...

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The feasibility and importance of adding measures of actual experience to cross-sectional data collection

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations: Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment

Maclean, J. Catherine; Tello-Trillo, Sebastian; Webber, … - 2019

We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health – mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) – community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related...

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Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach

Betti, Gianni; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - 2017

near the poverty line. The proposed approach is applied to the analysis of individual poverty in Albania, finding an …

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Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences

Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud; Joxhe, … - 2020

We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose …

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Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada - 2022

The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the …

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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the "Left Behind" Generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … –mainly by fathers – is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households’ incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536010

No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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