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This paper considers an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labour-force, the market for skill-complementary...
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the process of income transfers between and within households in Kenya and between … geographically separated units of the extended family - presents an econometrics study of the remittance function and income …
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this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We … investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for local area income with time-series variation in global oil prices … an increase in income on health expenditures. Our central estimate is an income elasticity of 0.7, with an elasticity of …
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of (1) rural migration, (2) women's age at marriage, (3) children mortality, and (4) educational level - constitutes part …
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of child labour in the region and provides analysis of the children's attitudes and expectations. …
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Based on a survey of more than 1,000 street children conducted in August-September 2000 in Sankt-Peterburg, Russian … Federation, analyses the working and social conditions of street children, the causes of child work and the role of regional … government and nongovernmental organizations in protection of children's rights. …
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