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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109910
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168467
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111126
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015609
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Did the Great Depression affect Educational Attainment in the US?
Kisswani, Khalid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Great Depression is a prime example of a macroeconomic crisis that produced adverse economic and social effects in all spheres of life. The theoretical arguments about the real effects of the Great Depression on education vary. The first is that of economic hardships, which might force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786968
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Do smart cities grow faster?
la Garza, Adrián G. de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Previous studies have found a strong positive correlation between human capital, measured as the share of the adult population with a college degree, and population growth in metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in the U.S. In this paper, I corroborate that the human capital-growth connection is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789517
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835987
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836190