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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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Signalling equilibrium, Intergenerational mobility and long-run growth

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper provides a signalling model of endogenous growth in which innate talents and education levels of workers …' beliefs about the relationship between talent and education level. Innate talent of a worker is a private knowledge and it is … distributed independent of the individual's family backgrounds; education level of workers act as a signalling device for talents …

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Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions in a Segmented Economy

Woltermann, Silke - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the impact of job search methods on the output of the job search process in a segmented labor market. Theoretical models of job search, like the widely used search approach, generally contain only one parameter capturing all possible factors affecting the efficiency of...

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian

Corak, Miles; Heisz, Andrew - EconWPA - 1998

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than...

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The Geographical Mobility of Mâori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Mâori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...

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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...

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Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa

Aguero, Jorge - EconWPA - 2005

This paper proposes a new test to distinguish between the two leading theories of discrimination: preference versus information. Discrimination based on preferences occurs when people behave as if they refuse to change their stereotypes about the capabilities of discriminated individuals. Those...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...

Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005

The paper provides three principal results. First, we benchmark South African infrastructure performance in terms of access, pricing, and quality against key comparator groups of countries using the most recent World Bank benchmarking data base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links...

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Is the Structure of Happiness Equations the Same in Poor and Rich Countries? The Case of South Africa.

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show that the relationships between subjective well-being and socioeconomic variables have a similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in...

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