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Recent technological advancements and the digitization of most financial services have transformed the way by which individuals deal with their financial transactions. It has also affected the focus of financial institutions’ investments, as well as the sectors’ market dynamic, with the...
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The current paper aimed to investigate the reasons for the technological and competitive heterogeneity in the machine tool industry in Brazil. By analyzing the trajectory of the sector, we can highlight three main reasons for such heterogeneity. First, due to the competitive framework that...
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, especially when parents had lower levels of education, and slightly less occupational mobility. To analyze the returns to … education, earnings equations were estimated using the Heckman selection model. The education of youths and their parents had a … great impact on youths’ earnings, mainly on females. Young women with higher education more than double their earnings …
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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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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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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...
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after the age of 14. We also found a threshold effect in returns to education with a magnitude that increases as people …
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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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' 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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