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have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …
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have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …
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This paper studies the Pareto-optimality of the consensual optimum established in 'Intergenerational anonymity as an alternative to the discounted-sum criterion I: consensual optimality'. For that, a Pareto- optimality criterion is set up by the application of the generalized Karush, Kuhn and...
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The objective of this work is to try to define and calculate the optimal growth path, in the presence of exogenous technical change, without resorting to the discounted-sum criterion. The solution suggested is to consider an optimality criterion expressing an anonymous intergenerational...
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In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...
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This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are … identification of unobserved wages. Results indicate that education affects earnings disproportionately more than hours, implying …
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The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising.Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...
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This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 for some variables). To this aim we analyse the evolution of the unit labour cost by sector (‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sector) and decomposition between the unit labour...
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556434
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481