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Has the level of achieved education affected the income of Czech households

Birčiaková, Naďa; Antošová, Veronika; Stávková, Jana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …

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The Child Labour in Developing Countries – A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …

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A Quick and Dirty Estimate of Measurement Error in Household Survey Consumption Expenditures: Application to Indonesian Data.

Pritchett, Lant; Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Measurement error is an enormous problem in empirical work. In some types of analysis, it is often ignored for various reasons. In some others, however, it cannot be ignored because it affects the results of analysis significantly. We use a simple procedure to estimate the extent of measurement...

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2010

Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...

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Optimal Policy and the Risk Properties of Human Capital Reconsidered

Anderberg, Dan - CESifo - 2008

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model it is shown that this feature alone determines...

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Tax Effects, Search Unemployment, and the Choice of Educational Type

Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - CESifo - 2005

This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals’ choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy’s skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low...

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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...

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Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...

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Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - CESifo - 2010

This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. Government expenditures have to be financed by linear instruments so that growth equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is...

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Education, Disappointment and Optimal Policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - CESifo - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the ability distribution, may be provided by behavioural economics. We present a prototypical model where individuals who are potentially loss averse around their expected outcome...

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