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The use of quantile methods in economic history

Clarke, Damian; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel; Pailañir, Daniel - 2021

quantile regression for use in research in economic history, review recent quantitive literature in the field, and provide an …

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...

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Community-based health insurance and out-of-pocket healthcare spending in Africa : evidence from Rwanda

Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2016

financing systems. This paper investigates the impact of these schemes on out-of-pocket spending based on three rounds of … increases outpatient spending with no detectable impact on inpatient services. Furthermore, we find notable heterogeneity in …

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …

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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...

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Organisational accreditation and worker upskilling in Britain

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2018

Britain has lagged behind the G7 countries in labour productivity in recent years. There is also an emerging concern about a potential post-Brexit skills deficit. Upskilling the existing workforce via on-the-job training may be a vital policy tool available. Using a panel of organisations and...

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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience

Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015

This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...

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Employer learning and the returns to schooling

Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2000

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …

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The sources of wage growth in a developing country

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015

What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key … is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to experience. Furthermore, we estimate a 35% return to ten years of tenure …

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