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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005
characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in wage equations for studying the effect … workers belonging to the middle of the wage distribution, while their return to schooling is significantly lower than that of … high wage workers. Wage regressions including the computed factors confirm that human capital is associated with positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408310
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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?
Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001
By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076926
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The Duration of Medicaid Spells: An Analysis Using Flow and Stock Samples
Berger, Mark C.; Black, Dan A. - EconWPA - 1996
We use unique data from the Medicaid program of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to examine the duration of Medicaid spells. The data set consists of a one in ten sample of all Medicaid recipients in Kentucky on July 1, 1986, and a similar sample of all new spells between July 1, 1986, and June 30,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076933
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child’s first three years and during adolescence on his … evidence that mother’s employment early in the child’s life has lasting consequences on participation in risky behaviors …. Similarly, with the possible exception of drinking alcohol—our results do not indicate that maternal employment during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125822
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Schooling and Parental Death
Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413016
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Obesity, Wages and Employment in Europe
Garcia, Jaume; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - EconWPA - 2005
This paper examines the associations between obesity, employment status and wages for several European countries. Our … results provide weak evidence that obese workers are more likely to be unemployed or tend to be more segregated in self-employment …
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Density versus Quality in Health Care Provision: Using Household Data to Make Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia
Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; Mackinnon, John - EconWPA - 2004
Usage of health facilities in Ethiopia is among the lowest in the world; raising usage rates is probably critical for improving health outcomes. The government has diagnosed the principal problem as the lack of primary health facilities and is devoting a large share of the health budget to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118703
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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States - A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frederic - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale and al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076587
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
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