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A selection analysis on education returns in China

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...

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Training, education and productivity

Carmichael, Fiona; Ercolani, Marco; Kang, Lili; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of training and education on productivity, in particular linking to a literature that emphasizes the need to reorganise production following adoption of ICT. The paper examines training at the total economy level and variation across industries, focusing...

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New measures of workforce skills in the EU

Kang, Lili; O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new data series designed to yield a more complete picture of the growth in average skill levels embedded in the EU workforce, comparing with competitor countries such as the US and China. Harmonised data from EU surveys are employed to extend coverage in existing databases to...

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Market Mechanism and Skill Premiums in the UK 1972-2002

Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the effect of shifts in the relative supply and demand of skills on the skill premiums and wage …

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Economic Reform and Productivity Convergence in China

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines effects of the formation of physical and human capital on the growth of labour productivity, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and wages in China, incorporating the market reform factors such as ownership shifts, population policy, openness and fiscal expenditures on education....

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Cyclical changes in the wage structure of the United Kingdom: a historical review of the GHS 1972-2002

Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to investigate the cyclical changes in the wage structure of the United Kingdom over the period 1972 …-2002 using the General Household Survey (GHS). Wage structure of the UK shows a cyclical pattern, which may be from the different … wage cyclicality of the top, middle and bottom percentile groups. Higher educated male workers have experienced a faster …

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Agrarian distress and rural non-farm sector employment in India

Abraham, Vinoj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

watchers that there is at last a visible structural shift in employment. Yet, it needs to be recognized that this shift has …

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Global financial crisis and return of South Asian Gulf migrants: patterns and determinants of their integration to local labour markets

Abraham, Vinoj; Rajan, Irudaya S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

countries, namely; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, concludes that on return, the employment status of REMs … were in general worse off than in their host country with high share of casualisation, self employment and unemployment in … the crisis year and a decline in their average monthly earnings. The analysis suggests that those who found employment on …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Labour: The Case of Indian Manufacturing

Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Abraham, Vinoj; Sahoo, Manoj Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the employment and wage effects of FDI in Indian manufacturing. The findings … suggest that foreign firms do not have any adverse effects on the manufacturing employment in India as compared to their …

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Integrated Assessment Modeling in Canada: The Case of Acid Rain

Mariam, Yohannes; Lam, David; Barre, Mike - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

emissions of SO2 are still required from the USA, iii) inter-regional trading with the USA can play a major role in reducing …

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