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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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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Japan And The Great Divergence, 725-1874
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Japanese GDP per capita grew at an annual rate of 0.04 per cent between 725 and 1874, but the growth was episodic, with the increase in per capita income concentrated in three periods, 1150-1280, 1450-1600 and after 1730, interspersed with periods of stable per capita income. There is a...
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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie; Meng, Jingzhou; Tien, Bienvenue; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
achievements in education as well as its internationalization of education. Since 1978, the landmark for the foundation of the … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally … producing serious scholars and a tremendous amount of scholarly output; more and more Chinese students seek higher education …
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Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire
Markevich, Andrei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We document a very large increase in agricultural productivity, peasants’ living standards, and industrial development in the 19th century Imperial Russia as a result of the abolition of serfdom. We construct a novel province-level panel dataset of development outcomes and conduct a...
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Impoverished, but Numerate? Early Numeracy in East Asia (1550–1800) and its Impact on 20th and 21st Century Economic Growth
Baten, Jörg; Sohn, Kitae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper first draws on a unique data set, hojok (household registers), to estimate numeracy levels in Korea from the period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital estimate for East Asia. We find that numeracy was...
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Indian GDP Before 1870: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain
Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper provides estimates of Indian GDP constructed from the output side for the pre-1871 period, and combines them with population estimates to track changes in living standards. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily between 1600 and 1871. As British living standards increased from the...
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Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940
Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Using data on the production and usage of cotton, the paper develops estimates for the production and consumption of cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in...
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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labour market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no …
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Regulation And Labour Market Performance
Boeri, Tito; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The increasing literature on the interactions between liberalization-integration of product markets and labour market reforms is often highly speculative and draws on a rather weak empirical basis. Cross-country indicators of regulatory frameworks are often lacking, making it difficult to...
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