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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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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 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 …

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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

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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...

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Subject of degree and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Italy

Noe', Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the...

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Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set

Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...

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Matching frictions and the divide of schooling investment between general and specific skills

Decreuse, Bruno; Granier, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper examines the impact of labor market frictions and institutions on the divide of schooling investment between general and specific skills. We offer a simple matching model of unemployment in which individuals determine the scope and intensity of their skills. In partial equilibrium, we...

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Human capital—economic growth nexus in the former Soviet Bloc

Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study analyses the role of education in economic development in the republics of the former Socialist Bloc and more specifically the impact of human capital on per capita economic growth in transition economies in the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. The factors that are associated with the...

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Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment

Castagnetti, Carolina; Rosti, Luisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper tests whether the academic achievement is a significant determinant of the employment status in the Italian labor market: are the new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduates ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment...

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