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Éducation et marchés du travail à Brazzaville et Pointe Noire (Congo-Brazzaville)

Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe - DIAL - 2011

(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo. We examine firsthand data from the 2009 Congo's Employment and Informal Sector Survey (Enquête sur l’emploi et le secteur...

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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...

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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Reilich, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...

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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa

Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2006

(english) The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan,...

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Changing Returns to Education Across Cohorts: Selection, School System or Skills Obsolescence?

Hægeland, Torbjørn - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001

This paper investigates whether economic returns to education in Norway differ across cohorts. Differences in returns to education may arise from selection effects - the large increase in educational attainment in postwar years may have changed selection into education. They may also result from...

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Labor Market Modeling Recognizing Latent Job Attributes and Opportunity Constraints An Empirical Analysis of Labor Market Behavior of Eritrean Women

Arneberg, Marie W.; Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2002

/97 Eritrean Household Income and Expenditure Survey for urban areas. We estimate structural choice probabilities of being in the …

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Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...

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"The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005"

Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander; Evans, Benjamin; … - Levy Economics Institute - 2011

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household’s economic well-being was lower in …

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"A Comparison of Inequality and Living Standards in Canada and the United States Using an Expanded Measure of Economic Well-Being"

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Masterson, Thomas; … - Levy Economics Institute - 2012

We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to … represents the first international comparison based on LIMEW, which differs from the standard measure of gross money income (MI …) in that it includes noncash government transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production, and …

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"Measuring Poverty Using Both Income and Wealth: An Empirical Comparison of Multidimensional Approaches Using Data for the U.S. and Spain"

Azpitarte, Francisco - Levy Economics Institute - 2010

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … proposed in the literature. Two types of approaches are considered: those that look at income and wealth separately when … argue that the higher correlation between income and wealth in the United States contributes to explaining the greater …

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