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The paper is purported to analyze the impact of skill formation on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality using a few … variants of the HOS-type framework. It shows that the effect of skill formation on the wage inequality depends crucially upon … improvement measures to improve the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the developing countries. …
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education is no longer an individual exercise of present and future utility maximisation as suggested by more formal human …
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inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …
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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …
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different predictions about the effect of children's education level and number of children on intergenerational transfers …
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This paper seeks to examine what factors are associated with student labour force participation in Northern Ireland in both term-time and vacation making use of Quarterly Labour Force Survey data for the period March 1998 to February 1999. The results suggest female students are more likely to...
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The paper analyzes the implications of trade liberalization on the incidence of child labour in a two-sector general equilibrium framework. The supply function of child labour has been derived from the utility maximizing behaviour of the working families. The paper finds that the effect of trade...
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The paper analyzes the implications of a subsidy policy on education and different liberalized trade and investment …
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The paper purports to examine the implications of a free education policy and trade liberalization on the child and … education subsidy or inflow of foreign capital may produce counterproductive results on the supply of child labour in the urban …
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of approximately $550 per week. Income inequality within the total working-aged Mâori population declined, while income … inequality among employed Mâori was stable. An analysis of some of the key factors contributing to change in the income …
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