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the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian … development, and are not driven by alternative channels through which missionaries could impact current income. …
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countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …
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Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above … reduce transactions costs of land acquisition, policies that we claim are also applicable beyond India. …
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This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census … capita in their county of birth reduces four-year college degree attainment by 10 percent and income in adulthood by 3 … graduates and $42-$87 billion less earned income per year. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
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In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry … exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …
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This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
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-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …
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