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Youth labor force participation, education, and human capital in Asia, by gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …

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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession : evidence from the Asian financial crisis

Choi, Eleanor Jawon; Choi, Jaewoo; Son, Hyelim - 2020

This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated … effect by examining their labor market activities, family formation, and household finances. Using data from 20 waves of the … Korean Labor and Income Panel Study, we find a substantial and persistent reduction in employment, earnings, marriage …

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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...

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The long-term outcomes of refugees : tracking the progress of the East African Asians

Anders, Jake; Burgess, Simon M.; Portes, Jonathan - 2018

Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this gap by looking at the case of "East African Asians" who arrived as...

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Asian segregation and scholastic achievement : evidence from primary schools in New York City

D'Este, Rocco; Einiö, Elias - 2018

This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...

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Effect of enforcement shock on pushers' activities : evidence from an Asian drug-selling gang

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Xu, Haibo - 2019

We study a Singaporean drug-selling gang's dataset and empirically find that the gang's pushers purchased larger quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by...

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Demographic determinants of savings : estimating and interpreting the aggregate association in Asia

Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2005

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The … fertility which changes the age compositions and could thereby account for savings and growth in Asia. …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

country, the paper also confirms that several socio-economic factors such as female labor force participation, percent of the … ; Africa ; Asia …

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International financial integration and Real Exchange Rate long-run dynamics in emerging countries : some panel evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - 2009

America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out "second-generation" tests for non-stationary panels …

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