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International Competition, Returns to Skill, and Labor Market Adjustment

Falvey, Rod - 2018

Does increased import competition lead to higher returns to skill within an industry and, therefore, to greater incentives for skill acquisition? Does it also induce skill upgrading by the industry?s existing workforce? To answer these questions, this paper follows individual workers across...

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Employment Structure and Returns to Skill in Vietnam : Estimates Using the Labor Force Survey

Demombynes, Gabriel - 2018

This paper uses Labor Force Survey data to assess key aspects of the labor market in Vietnam over 2007-14. The analysis finds large growth in wage employment in the foreign-owned and domestic private sectors. However, the state sector remains a major employer, particularly for workers with...

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A Primer on Human Capital

Flabbi, Luca - 2018

human capital and income growth. Rather than completeness, the objective of this work is to distill some of the most … (sections 2, 3 and 4). The note then reviews the micro empirical literature estimating labor income returns of human capital …

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Returns to Investment in Education : The Case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry A. - 2019

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

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Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico

Levy, Santiago - 2019

Over the last two decades, Mexico has experienced macroeconomic stability, an open trade regime, and substantial progress in education. Yet average workers' earnings have stagnated, and earnings of those with higher schooling have fallen, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the...

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More than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill are Available

Gunewardena, Dileni - 2018

schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle-income …

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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between individuals? skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia?s urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...

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The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico

Avitabile, Ciro - 2017

A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the … on learning outcomes and self-reported measures of effort. The effects are larger for girls and students from households … with a relatively high income. These findings are consistent with a simple model where time discount determines the …

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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2017

women. The policy equalizes the educational attainment of urban and rural children substantially. The urban-rural gap in the …

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Improving Education Outcomes in South Asia : Findings from a Decade of Impact Evaluations

Asim, Salman - 2017

There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and synthesize the insights about what actually works to improve learning and other education...

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