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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007
How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world … potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …
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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...
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Dual track or academic route for auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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When the quality of a nation triggers emigration
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes
Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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Do early-ending conditional cash transfer programs crowd out school enrollment?
Wiegand, Martin - 2019
This paper explores how a conditional cash transfer program influences students' schooling decisions when program payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico's Progresa, which covered students only until the end of middle school (at age 15) in its early years....
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Productivity convergence in OECD manufacturing industries
Carree, Martin Anthony; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999
The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … correlated with the extent of convergence. …
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Out of Africa : what drives the pressure to emigrate?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2004
migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …
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