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As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...
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This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
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Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...
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This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...
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We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of eligible individuals we compare workers before and after...
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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
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Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ‘penalty …
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consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … and closure data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance … estimate that job loss more than doubles the risk of entry to permanent disability and that displacements account for fully 28 …
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We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on … relationship between work-limiting disability and over-skilling, it appears that there is a positive relationship between work …-limiting disability and over-education, which is consistent with disability onset leading to downward occupational movement, at least in …
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