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The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Educational and Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940.
Dronkers, J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper gives empirical evidence of the role of cognitive ability in social stratification by analyzing a Dutch longitudinal data set (the so-called Noord-Brabant cohort), as a contribution to the debates around The Bell Curve. Differences in early cognitive ability influence educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552810
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Human Capital Heterogeneity: University Choice and Wages
Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyzes the impact of post-secondary education on wages in Israel. The focus is on the impact of university … universities command a different return to education, the paper shows that this is due to the selection of more able individuals to … particular universities and not to differences in the quality of education offered. The paper is based on a unique data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622043
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
Traoré, Jean Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
important role of education in occupational choice. To empirically test our hypothesis, we estimate a two-stage degenerated … increases with the level of education. In the informal sector education attainment tends to reduce the probability of self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107279
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Maroc éducation et emploi une analyse théorique
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114041
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Dynamic Models of Arts Labor Supply
Popovic, Milenko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper two dynamic models of an artist’s behavior and arts labor supply have been developed. Both are based on a household production function approach and on the assumption that artists are multiple-job-holders. In the first model proposed here an artist is depicted as someone who is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258614
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The Chilean Labor Market: Job Creation, Quality, Inclusiveness, and Future Challenges
Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258725
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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 signals of innate ability, or the accumulation of human capital. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258797
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Baumol and the post-industrial trilemma: examining the relationship between productivity, prices and wages
Lewis, Paul; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259249
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Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency
Amarender A, Reddy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Appropriate choice of cropping systems to local agro-ecology increases profitability and employment. The increased labour shortage and reduced profitability are growing concerns to the farmers. Keeping this, the paper written with the following objectives: i) To assess the profitability among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260091
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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living. Historical nomadic instinct of man had been in tune with his necessities – more endurable climate, adequate water supply, fertile land and general availability of resources have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260183