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growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …
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This paper analyzes the effects of differential turnover patterns and the existence of firm specific training, jointly financed by employer and employee, on male-female wage and employment differentials. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sex differences in occupational distribution and...
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patterns and gender differences in schooling attainment …
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This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications …-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more recent cohorts in comparison to older cohorts. We find this pattern …
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Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but …
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In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of job offers that vary in their...
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This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy …
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We examine how exposure of Chinese firms to the Covid-19 shock varied with a cluster index (measuring spatial agglomeration of firms in related industries) at the county level. Two data sources are used: entry flows of newly registered firms in the entire country, and an entrepreneur survey...
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We study the informational content of factor structures in discrete triangular systems. Factor structures have been employed in a variety of settings in cross sectional and panel data models, and in this paper we formally quantify their identifying power in a bivariate system often employed in...
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