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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
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods...
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The relationship between government expenditure and poverty : a cointegration analysis
Mehmood, Rashid; Sadiq, Sara - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 1 (2010) 1, pp. 29-37
The study examines the long run as well as short run relationship between the fiscal deficits, which is outcome of high government expenditure over the level of tax revenue collection, and poverty. The results reveal a negative relationship between government expenditure and poverty based on...
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The causality between government revenue and government expenditure in Iran
Elyasi, Yousef; Rahimi, Mohammad - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 129-145
The causal relationship between government revenue and government expenditure is an important subject in public economics especially to the control of budget deficit. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between government revenue and government expenditure in Iran by...
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Multiculturalism versus assimilation : attitudes towards immigrants in Western countries
Vani, Borooah K.; John, Mangan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 33-50
A long standing area of debate in Western countries is that of the appropriate philosophy for facilitating large scale immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration/multiculturalism) or should they assimilate themselves into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009958044
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El estudio de casos como metodología de investigación científica en dirección y economía de la empresa : una aplicación a la internacionalización
Villarreal Larrinaga, O.; Landeta Rodríguez, J. - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 16 (2010) 3, pp. 31-52
Management, as a social science, and Strategic Management, as a specific scientific discipline of this science, require research methodologies that can deal with all of the complexities of the business phenomena to be analysed. Certain circumstances call for methodologies that can combine...
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Global imbalances in current account balances
Bildirici, Melike; Kayıkçı, Fazil - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 83-93
Persistent current account deficits were observed in some developing countries that are received substantial foreign capital in the last decades. This has raised the issue of sustainability and increased the volume of studies about the measures of sustainable current account deficits in the...
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Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan
Justino, Patricia; Shemyakina, Olga N. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-28
results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not … remittances is the primary factor explaining male labor force participation. -- migration ; remittances ; labor markets …
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...
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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis
Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy … perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on … education and study which of skilled or unskilled migration is more sensitive to aid. More specifically we investigate the …
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From immigrants to (non-)citizens : political economy of naturalisations in Latvia
Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by ‘non-citizens’ – the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for the analysis of naturalisations: due to the...
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