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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education …
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affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …
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This document describes the construction of series on the educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries for the period 1960-95. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2000).
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The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the neligible children acquire more schooling when the …
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We analyze the determinants of participation (whether to study) and schooling (where and what to study) in a public … system of higher education, based on a unique dataset of all eligible high school pupils in an essentially closed region … role for travel costs: they hardly affect the participation decisions, but have a strong impact on the schooling decisions …
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paid work, whereas for girls we find evidence of the adverse event having a beneficial impact on schooling. To explain …
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Does trade policy influence schooling and child labor decisions in low income countries? We examine this question in … schooling and decline in child labor. These trends were attenuated in communities where employment was concentrated in … industries loosing tariff protection. The data suggest that this failure to follow the national trend of increasing schooling and …
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