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How do Growth affects labor market’s work? This question is important, because, labor market plays a key role in determining the success of poverty reduction policies. Using the times series data, we have been able to confirm the prediction of theory which present a positive effect of growth...
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result of transition is loosing its pace, and that during last two years there is a change of trend, with employment levels … financial institutions in Serbia. Major business indicators are analyzed with coverage of the level of employment. There are the …
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more of an ‘assured’ type rather than a ‘search’ type, in response to regular wage employment, where the better endowed … received by them have been examined. This has been contrasted with the pre-reform situation. Whether wage setting process is … different for migrants is also examined through estimation of the wage function. Results suggest that migration among males are …
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We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...
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The study presented here reviews activities of NGOs in Sudan by surveying and studying the activities of Save the Children of United Kingdom. Activities of NGOs in Sudan were always a controversial issue that resulted in the expulsion of many in 2009. There were also precedents of such...
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This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and earnings as an adult. Using insights from the medical literature, I decompose low birth weight infants into two distinct subtypes: a symmetric type, which is characterized by...
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In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select 10,720 Italian families from the 2004-2007 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of...
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Empirical anomalies in the dynamics of earnings following the emergence of new ICT technologies are not consistent with various re-elaborations of the human capital theory. The first part of the paper reviews critically this literature and highlights an important gap concerning the role of...
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leaving paid employment for self-employment. We think, that this is a special kind of knowledge spillover. We also control for … other aspects such as gender, age, wage, etc. – factors that may potentially influence the decision to become self …
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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model in which workers acquire human capital specific to the task they complete. The dynamic nature of the model allows for differentiation between short and long run effects of offshoring on productivity and labour market outcomes. The welfare...
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