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Does Education Empower Women? Evidence from Indonesia
Samarakoon, Sujani; Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the number of live births, increases contraceptive use, and...
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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...
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Regional Analysis of Out-of-School Children in Romania
Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The current study consists of a regional analysis of children participation in education in Romania. From an administrative point of view, the country is organized in 41 counties and Bucharest city. The regional level emerged in the public policymaking only after 1989, when escaping a...
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The Prospects of the Baby Boomers: Methodological Challenges in Projecting the Lives of an Aging Cohort
Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
In most industrialized countries, the work and family patterns of the baby boomers characterized by more heterogeneous working careers and less stable family lives setthem apart from preceding cohorts. Thus, it is of crucial importance to understand how these different work and family lives are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787014
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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168467
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Education, Development and Knowledge: New Forms of Unequal Change Under Globalization. The Case of SSA Countries
Chagas Lopes, MARGARIDA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111126
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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Who Is Overeducated and Why?: Probit and Dynamic Mixed Multinomial Logit Analyses of Vertical Mismatch in East and West Germany
Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Schömann, Klaus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Overeducation is an often overlooked facet of untapped human resources. But who is overeducated and why? Relying on SOEP data 1984‐2011, we use probit models for estimating the likelihood of entering overeducation and dynamic mixed multinomial logit models with random effects addressing state...
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Technology and skill-upgrading: Results from linked worker-plant data for Finnish manufacturing
Vainiomäki, Jari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
In this paper we use both the standard Census of Manufacturing data and new linked information on worker characteristics for the Finnish manufacturing plants to examine the skilled/unskilled relative demand and its correlation with technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are...
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
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