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A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines career choices using a dynamic structural model that nests a job search model within a human capital model of occupational and educational choices. Individuals in the model decide when to attend school and when to move between firms and occupations over the course of their...
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Post-reform Trends in Wage-Differentials: A Decomposition Analysis for India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...
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Women Employment in The New Economy: Clouds and Some Sunshine
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The last decade has witnessed greater participation of women in the labour market, especially in new arenas of economic activity. While opportunities have increased, traditional biases against women still exist, both while accepting women as workers and while wage setting. This paper explores...
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Occupational Self-Selection in a Labor Market with Moral Hazard
Demiralp, Berna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper presents a model of occupational choice in a labor market characterized by moral hazard. The model demonstrates that in such a labor market, workers' occupational choices are determined by not only their comparative advantage but also their effort decisions in each occupation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836841
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Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment from India
Prakash, Nishith; Howard, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their … occupational choice. We utilize multiple logit models to estimate the effect of the policy on the choice between a high, middle, or … low-skill public sector occupation during the 1980s and 1990s. The main findings are, first, the policy has a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837133
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Common tongue: The impact of language on economic performance
Jain, Tarun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of language on economic performance. I use the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of speaking the majority language on educational and occupational outcomes. I find that districts that spoke...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360261
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The impact of body weight on occupational mobility and career development
Harris, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I estimate a dynamic stochastic model of individuals' annual joint decisions of occupation, hours worked, and schooling. The model allows body weight to affect non-monetary costs,...
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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108028
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Agricultural Productivity Differences and Credit Market Imperfections
Nishida, Keigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents a simple model to examine the implication of credit market imperfections when considering the massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents to acquire skills to work in non-agricultural sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114351
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Déterminants de la participation au marché du travail et choix occupationnel: une analyse microéconométrique appliquée au cas de l'Algérie
Lassassi, Moundir; Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A review of the literature on the issue of labor market participation and occupational choice, allows us to see that research on this topic turned more on developed countries. In developing countries, including Algeria, the determinants of participation in economic activity and individuals’...
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