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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru

Dasso, Rosamaría; Fernandez, Fernando; Nopo, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly …

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Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS, mobile phone technologies might affect the...

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Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

subjective job gain expectations in Peru. Results show that jobseekers who received digital intermediation based on a large …

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Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national...

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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...

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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Dammert, Ana C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children’s allocation …

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Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises

Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...

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