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Is the German Apprenticeship System a Panacea for the US Labour Market?

Harhoff, Dietmar; Kane, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

similar station within the German wage structure as that held by high school graduates in the US labour market. Finally, we …

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Croissance Economique et Marché du Travail au Cameroun

Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

How do Growth affects labor market’s work? This question is important, because, labor market plays a key role in determining the success of poverty reduction policies. Using the times series data, we have been able to confirm the prediction of theory which present a positive effect of growth...

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Razvoj privrede zasnovan na ulaganjima u ljudske resurse i stranim investicijama

Zubovic, Jovan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

result of transition is loosing its pace, and that during last two years there is a change of trend, with employment levels … financial institutions in Serbia. Major business indicators are analyzed with coverage of the level of employment. There are the …

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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

more of an ‘assured’ type rather than a ‘search’ type, in response to regular wage employment, where the better endowed … received by them have been examined. This has been contrasted with the pre-reform situation. Whether wage setting process is … different for migrants is also examined through estimation of the wage function. Results suggest that migration among males are …

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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview

Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...

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Humanitarian aid, internal displacement and social impacts in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W.; Osman, Kamal M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The study presented here reviews activities of NGOs in Sudan by surveying and studying the activities of Save the Children of United Kingdom. Activities of NGOs in Sudan were always a controversial issue that resulted in the expulsion of many in 2009. There were also precedents of such...

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Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data

Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...

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The effects of asymmetric and symmetric fetal growth restriction on human capital development

Robinson, Joshua J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and earnings as an adult. Using insights from the medical literature, I decompose low birth weight infants into two distinct subtypes: a symmetric type, which is characterized by...

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Education and fertility: an investigation on Italian families

Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select 10,720 Italian families from the 2004-2007 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of...

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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach

Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Empirical anomalies in the dynamics of earnings following the emergence of new ICT technologies are not consistent with various re-elaborations of the human capital theory. The first part of the paper reviews critically this literature and highlights an important gap concerning the role of...

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