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School Quality and School Location
Terry O`Shaughnessy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
This paper presents a model of school choice with peer effects and scale economies within schools. Parents` perception of school quality depends on resources and on the characteristics of the student body. A network of local schools of uniform quality will be optimal, even though different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604979
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Rates of Return to Education by Gender in Pakistan
Aslam, Monazza - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This paper contributes to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605236
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Intrahousehold Allocation of Education Expenditure and Returns to Education: The Case of Sri Lanka
Himaz, Rozana - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between boys and girls in rural Sri Lanka.  Contrary to most countries in South Asia a significant bias favouring girls is found in 1990/91 for the 5-9 and 17-19 age groups and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047961
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Education and Household Welfare in Sri Lanka from 1985 to 2006
Himaz, Rozana; Aturupane, Harsha - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
labour market returns to employment display similar trends.  The first finding suggests that credentials are important in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800183
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Bericht des Europäischen Beschäftigungsobservatoriums
Europäische Kommission / Europäisches … - Birmingham : ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd.; … - 2001 -
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002177023
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Bericht des Europäischen Beschäftigungsobservatoriums
Europäische Kommission / Europäisches … - Luxembourg : Amt für Amtliche Veröffentlichungen der …; … - 2001 - 2003; 2004(2005) - 2009,Frü.; 2009 - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001621236
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Tassazione, performance dell'economia ed Europa
Paganetto, Luigi (contributor) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001623825
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Il lavoro e la sovranità sociale, 1996 - 1997
Rossi, Nicola (contributor) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000903085
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A Pluralist Account of Labour Participation in India
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid … curve of female employment by education levels. Many women at the bottom of the U are doing extra-domestic work, so a …-domestic work (and are more likely to be `inactive`) than women in other cultural groups. Economic poverty causes employment to be …
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