and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …

This paper uses household, school, and test score data from Bangladesh to compare and contrast the effectiveness of NGO …

dataset obtained from a small microfinance institution in Bangladesh, the paper then presents some first empirical evidence on …

analysis suggests that export promotion per se is unlikely to lead to sustainable internationalization because … internationalization goes beyond export and because, in the medium to long term, internationalization is likely driven by innovation. We …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …