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"This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as instrumental variables for child labor. For boys, the...
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"Professional skills are scarce in Mozambique, even by the standards of low-income countries. The solution, however, is … not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address market-specific problems. Where skills are … exploit economies of scale.Where skills may be limited but are not yet the binding constraint, the priority is to stimulate …
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"The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study...
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