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This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
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Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model … that computer users enjoy an almost 4 per cent wage premium over non-users. Failure to correct for the worker selection …
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minority children - lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … computer ownership and use, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, credits …
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-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full … computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. …
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may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … exploit within-student between-subject variation in different computer uses in the international TIMSS test. We find positive …
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
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clear for the effects on actual transfers to 4-year colleges and the probability of using a computer to search for college …
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The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices,...
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and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
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inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the "flexible" countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
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