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Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Openness: The Case of Developing Economies
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Liargovas, Panagiotis G.; Skandalis, Konstantinos S. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This paper examines the importance of trade openness for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, using a sample of 36 developing economies for the period 1990-2008. It provides a direct test of causality between FDI inflows, trade openness and other key variables in developing regions of the world: Latin America, Asia, Africa, CIS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, International Trade, Investment
Financial Satisfaction and (In)formal Sector in a Transition Country
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Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Gerxhani, Klarita – Social Indicators Research, 2011
This paper examines the relationship between working in the formal or informal sector and self-reported individual financial satisfaction in a country in transition. It does so by allowing for individual heterogeneity in terms of perceived financial insecurity and tax morale. The empirical analysis uses a dataset for Albania, a country in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Security (Psychology), Labor Market, Social Indicators
Household and Context Determinants of Child Labor in 221 Districts of 18 Developing Countries
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Webbink, Ellen; Smits, Jeroen; de Jong, Eelke – Social Indicators Research, 2013
We develop a new theoretical framework that explains the engagement in child labor of children in developing countries. This framework distinguishes three levels (household, district and nation) and three groups of explanatory variables: Resources, Structure and Culture. Each of the three groups refers to another strand of the literature;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anthropology, Rural Areas, Developing Nations