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The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d<92>Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004
, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076938
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Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Zambia during the 1990s
McCulloch, Neil; Baulch, Bob; Cherel-Robson, Milasoa - EconWPA - 2000
poverty headcount by 2015 suggest that Zambia is unlikely to meet this International Development Target unless policy reforms … reforms to the public sector. This paper uses household survey data from 1991, 1996 and 1998 to chart the evolution of poverty … the policies implemented and the observed changes in poverty and inequality. Our study finds a dramatic increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062532
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Student Responses to Merit Retention Rules
Cornwell, Christopher M.; Lee, Kyung Hee; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using the longitudinal records of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134618
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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks
Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004
The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556647
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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - EconWPA - 2004
this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … convexity amongst the young. We also find evidence of increasing convexity over the 1990s in Tanzania, but remarkable stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118714
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Die ökonomischen Effekte der Hochschulausgaben des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt – Fiskalische, Humankapital- und Kapazitätseffekte der Hochschulen in Magdeburg (Teil 2)
Rosner, Ulf; Weimann, Joachim - EconWPA - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert, in welchem Umfang und auf welchen Wegen der Wissens- und Humankapitaltransfer durch die Otto-von-Guericke- Universität Magdeburg und die Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) in die Wirtschaft Sachsen-Anhalts stattfindet. Ausgehend von der wirtschaftlichen Ausgangslage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556230
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the intergenerational transmission of human capital: the case of heterogenous families
HLAIMI, Boubaker - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this paper is to analyse the intergenerational transmission mechanisms within a theoretical framework which supposes a heterogeneous family structure. For that, we propose a modified version of the model of Becker and Tomes (1986) by supposing that they exist two groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076521
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Human Capital in Transitional Russia
Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002
This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992- 2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076535
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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration
Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyzes some of the implications of North American labor market integration for fiscal policy. The economies of Canada and the US are both characterized by highly integrated internal markets for goods and services as well as for labor and capital, and subnational governments in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076579
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The Three Capitals of Pricing – Human, Systems and Social Capital
Ritson, Mark; Zbaracki, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076823