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Linguistic traits and human capital formation

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...

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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019

of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …

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International labour force participation rates by gender : unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Birth and employment transitions of women in Turkey : conflicting or compatible roles?

Abbasoğlu Özgören, Ayşe; Ergöçmen, Banu; Tansel, … - 2017

The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration, especially for developing countries where the micro and macro evidence fails to paint a clear picture. This study analyzes the two-way relationship between women's employment...

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Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2000

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni...ted theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...

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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Galor, Oded - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2011

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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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Flowers of evil? : industrialization and long run development

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2018

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...

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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey : evidence from individual level data

Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt?

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...

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