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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities
Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646288
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
study at Zhejiang province in China. This paper shows that the average distance of a training center in a village, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762434
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
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Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec
Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Plug, Erik; Ponce, Juan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...
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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets
Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "…[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...
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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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