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The 1980s have seen the beginnings of a change of heart among developing country policymakers, as the import-substitution consensus of the previous decade has all but evaporated. It is paradoxical that the 1980s should have become the decade of trade liberalization in LDCs, since this has also...
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educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …
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inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the … 'subjectively' defined. However, when we disaggregate groups by type of access rule, we find that inequality decreases participation … in open access groups when there are wide disparities at the bottom of the distribution, while it increases participation …
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in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in … exacerbate lower female participation in the labour market. Hence, both effects lead to a gendered equilibrium with large gaps …
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We analyze the determinants of participation (whether to study) and schooling (where and what to study) in a public … role for travel costs: they hardly affect the participation decisions, but have a strong impact on the schooling decisions …. In addition, high school background plays an important role in both the participation and schooling decisions. To …
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We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our …
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, labor force participation of male workers of different skills has fallen while their working hours have increased. …
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studies. We relate the results to the relevant level of female labour force participation. …
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We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a large share of nominal wage disparities. Second, even after controlling for individual and firms characteristics and instrumenting city characteristics, the estimated elasticity of...
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If in general, financial deepening aids economic growth, then financial repression should be harmful. We use a natural experiment – the change in the English usury laws in 1714 – to analyse the effects of interest rate restrictions. Based on a sample of individual loan transactions, we...
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