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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a...
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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pensions scarce. In this paper, we explore whether education offsets discrimination by empowering discriminated groups to … successfully compete for formal jobs. Specifically, we calculate the returns to education on formal employment for a discriminated … group (indigenous Peruvians). We find that certain education levels -primary and tertiary-allow indigenous workers equal …
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
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greater when considering students from affirmative action programmes and for courses in the field of technology. But the …
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data on student- and parent-reported aspirations and attitudes towards education allow us to explore the channels …
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' human capital and interest in science and postgraduate education studies through a substantial increase in scholarships for … increasing approved student enrolment in postgraduate education programmes in Brazil. Even though the programme could have …
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the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most …-term education and earnings of individuals living in affected municipalities. We show a piece of evidence that the increase in child …
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