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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...

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Education and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India: An Analysis Using NSS Household Data

Kingdom, G.G.; Unni, J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1998

's observed lower labour force participation and earnings than men, and whether any contribution of education to the gender wage …

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Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and …

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Firm Provision of General Training and Specific Human Capital Acquisition

Casas-Arce, Pablo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of their workers, but without explaining which firms train which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the willingness of firms to pay for general training, and...

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Vocational Training and the Poaching Externality : Evidence for France.

Hocquet, L - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

In this paper, we first present a summary of the literature dealing with the question of the existence of externalities of employer provided and funded training. Using French data, we then estimate the impact of this kind of training on wages, while paying special attention to the mobility after...

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Directed technical change, the elasticity of substitution and wage inequality in developing countries

Behar, Alberto - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

We develop a model of endogenous skill-biased technical change in developing countries. The model reconciles wildly dispersed existing estimates of the elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers. It also produces an estimating equation for the elasticity, which allow...

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Multi-tasking and the Returns to Experience

Chaudhury, Parama - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

In this paper, I study how an increase in the use of new work practices that involve multi-tasking has affected the returns to experience. If each task in a job has a concave learning curve, then increasing the number of tasks may increase the returns to experience. Using the Panel Study of...

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Do Wages reflect Productivity?

Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

We investigate wage and productivity profiles in the Ghanaian Manufacturing sector using matched firm and worker data. Following Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981), we use performance appraisal as our measure of individual productivity. Controlling for a wide range of human capital variables,...

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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel; Deininger, Klaus; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality …, we find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership …

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In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China.

Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer resourced to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing...

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