Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio
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Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio
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Immigrant Background or Assertiveness? In the Search of Key Factors for the Academic Progress of Migrant Children

2018 , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

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Bilingual schooling and wage income: the case of Tatarstan in Russia

2020 , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

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Trilingualism, Bilingualism and Educational Achievements: The Case of Chuvash and Tatar in Rural Russia

2018 , Hèctor Alòs i Font , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

This study examined the relations among trilingualism, bilingualism, and educational achievements of school students in a rural environment in Chuvashia, Russia. Using our survey results of 913 school students of Chuvash ethnicity (67%) and Tatar ethnicity (28%) and ordered logistic regressions we found weak evidence for any positive association between trilingualism or bilingualism and educational achievements. Socio-economic status, cultural capital (approached with number of books at home), health issues, type of settlement, class grade, number of siblings, and gender were controlled. The results also indicated that fluency in Chuvash and in Tatar, mother tongue proficiency, language used at home, and language of instruction in the elementary grades were not adversely related to educational achievements. On the one hand, these findings partially disagree with previous studies, where a positive association was found. It is probable, that the rural versus urban environment explains these differences. On the other hand, the results confirm previous research in the Volga area of Russia that a growing concern among authorities on minority language students’ educational achievements is baseless. It rather suggests that policy-makers should be more concerned with increasing the equality of opportunities provided by the education system to persons of different socio-economic levels.

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Never married and earnings: evidence from Russia

2020 , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of civil status on wage earnings in post-Soviet Russia. Education and work experience are the key explanatory variables according to the Mincer function. In view of that, here, an extension of the Mincer equation is estimated, focusing on never married individuals versus other civil status (married people). Thus, testing the female wage penalty and the male wage premium hypotheses.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on dynamic panel data models, underlining the autoregressive nature of earnings, controlling for time-invariant independent variables and adding marriage as an explanatory variable. The models are estimated using longitudinal data over the years 2000–2017, taken from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey.FindingsThe results indicate that never married Russians do not obtain higher levels of wage earnings in comparison with those who are married or correspond to other civil status. However, there is evidence supporting a wage premium for men and weak evidence of a penalty for women. That is, the regression results indicate a wage penalty for never married men and a wage premium for never married women, yet this last finding is not robust. Therefore, the general findings of this research only partially agree with the most recent evidence in developed countries, where marriage is not anymore associated with wages.Originality/valueThese findings are highly relevant for public policies related to family development, a major concern for the Russian Government during the last two decades. There is a common idea that avoiding marriage is associated with intentions to obtain higher levels of earnings, but this is a problem of myopia.

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Disciplina de mercado en el sistema bancario centroamericano

2017 , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

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Export composition and the eurozone trade balance in manufacturing goods

2020 , Carrasco, C.A. , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

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Religiosity and Entrepreneurship in Post-Soviet Russia

2022 , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

This article empirically studies the associations between religion (Orthodox Christianity, Islam, and non-religion), religiosity (to be a believer or not, and to what extent), religious participation (attending divine services, meetings or other religious events) and the probabilities of being an entrepreneur in post-Soviet Russia. Using logistic regressions and data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the findings suggest lower likelihoods of being an entrepreneur in the case of Orthodox Christians, religiosity shows mixed results, and religious participation presents positive links (increasing the probabilities of becoming an entrepreneur). Nevertheless, the negative association between Orthodoxy and entrepreneurship lacks statistical significance in several specifications. Indeed, only religious participation shows robust results, particularly for men. Note that religious participation is linked to social capital, namely, networking, facilitating resources for entrepreneurship. Therefore, in Russia, the religion-entrepreneurship nexus is associated with participation, and not precisely with religious affiliations or beliefs.

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La restricción externa de México y la composición del comercio en un enfoque bilateral

2020 , Carlos A. Carrasco , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

Estudios recientes cuestionan el poder explicativo de la Ley de Thirlwall sobre el caso de México y otros países en desarrollo, debido a la omisión de la especialización del comercio exterior y al uso de series temporales en la evaluación empírica. Atendiendo a dichas críticas, se estiman las elasticidades ingreso de la demanda de exportaciones e importaciones mediante modelos dinámicos de panel en un marco bilateral entre México y 39 socios comerciales, incluyendo la composición de las exportaciones e importaciones como regresores clave. Una vez controlando por la composición del comercio internacional, los resultados de las estimaciones con la versión débil de la Ley de Thirlwall predicen con precisión el crecimiento económico observado en México entre 1990 y 2016.

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Tracking the Characteristics of Economic Growth Vulnerability to COVID-19: A Preliminary Analysis

2020 , Carlos Alberto Carrasco , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

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Trade and growth in developing countries: the role of export composition, import composition and export diversification

2020 , Carlos A. Carrasco , Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio

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