Browsing Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften by Advisor & Referee "Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Prof. Dr."
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From Secondary School to the Labor Market in Colombia: Turning Barriers into Building Blocks
(2024-02-29)The System for the Prevention and Analysis of School Dropouts in Higher Education (SPADIES) played a pivotal role in addressing the challenge of reducing drop-out rates in Colombian higher education, contributing to an ... -
Essays on effects of policy interventions in the realm of food standards, trade, and the German labour market
(2017-03-31)The first three essays (Chapters 3, 4, and 5) analyse under which conditions positive or negative effects of standards on trade overweight. We look at the following different determinants: market structure, product ... -
Economic Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Measurement Issues.
(2016-09-27)Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people. The idea of equality is as old as the democracy itself, and besides instrumental reasons for valuing ... -
Telling stories or solving problems? The 20-20-20 package and the efficiency of EU Climate Change Policies
(2016-06-20)The main instrument for the EU climate change protection plans relies on the 20-20-20 by 2020 targets. This roadmap, adopted in 2008, is the result of years of continuing work for a joint programme for Europe-wide application ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Democracy and Education
(2016-05-04)Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for ... -
Essays on Poverty Measurement and Trade
(2016-03-10)The thesis consists of four essays in the broad spectrum of development economics. While the first three essays are in the sphere of poverty measurement, the fourth essay is on the topic of trade and development. In recent ... -
Essays in Empirical Development and Education Economics
(2015-09-17)This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium ... -
Do migrant remittances matter? Nature, determinants and impacts of remittances to Pakistan
(2015-07-08)This thesis is a collection of studies, which analyze the macro- and micro-economic aspects of the nature of migrant remittances to Pakistan and their economic impacts on the recipient households’ consumption and asset ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Development and Globalization
(2015-05-13)There are arguably few topics in current global economic policy as intensely debated as the impact of different facets of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains four essays of which the first two essays analyse the regional and individual persistence of unemployment, while the third essay explores the appropriate design for the amount of grant for cash ... -
Is de-carbonized development possible? Household emissions and renewable energy in developing countries
(2014-10-24)Today’s policy makers are facing the challenge of mitigating climate change without limiting the growth potentials of developing countries. In this vein, this study offers a step towards answering the question is de-carbonized ... -
Trade and Uncertainty
(2014-06-03)The five chapters of this dissertation deal with the topic of trade under different kinds of uncertainty. In the first chapter, the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on exports of European countries is investigated with ... -
Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict and the Duration of Armed Groups
(2013-09-30)Political instability and political violence have been a major hindrance for development in developing and transition countries. Development and progress for countries is hard to achieve under the presence of armed conflict, ... -
Growth, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate and Wellbeing
(2013-08-29)The five essays of this dissertation combine topics from development and environmental economics. All essays treat the overall topic on how to influence and regulate the production of CO2 emissions. The green house gas CO2 ... -
Okonometrische Verfahren zur Messung von Segregation und Lohndiskriminierung - eine theoretische und empirische Studie
(2013-01-31)In most economies males earn higher wages than females. The question is whether this wage gap is due to discrimination or not. The dominant approach is the human capital theory by Becker and Mincer. It means that workers ... -
Econometric studies on flexible modeling of developing countries in growth analysis
(2012-05-25)Over the last four decades, several methods for selecting the smoothing parameter, generally called the bandwidth, have been introduced in kernel regression. They differ quite a bit, and although there already exist ... -
Bandwidth Selection in Nonparametric Kernel Estimation
(2012-03-14)Kernel estimation is a common nonparametric method for data based estimation of densities or regression functions. Although one may consider nonparametric estimation as a procedure that ... -
Three studies on semi-mixed effects models
(2012-01-05)The applications of non- and semiparametric models are found in nearly all fields of empirical research. Since nonparametric methods do not have restrictive assumptions about the distribution of the observations ... -
Simple Solutions to hard Problems in the Estimation and Prediction of Welfare Distributions
(2011-06-01)The aim of my PhD projects is to investigate various problems in applied parametric and nonparametric estimation, and eventually in prediction. The main focus is on welfare analysis. For instance, in both nonparametric density ...