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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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China's economic demography transition strategy : a population weighted approach to the economy and policy
Johnston, Lauren A. - 2020
economic and demographic change - an economic demography transition approach - has never been more pressing. Thanks partly to …'s consequential and ongoing economic demography transition strategy within the economic and development policy discourse. Amid epochal … demographic, public health, and geo-economic change, this economic demography perspective is timely, unique and useful in …
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Constrained school choice in Egypt
Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017
This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed … private schools at the pre-university level, we find that attendance of private higher education institutions has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120881
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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education : a regression discontinuity analysis
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2021
youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers
DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021
This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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Minimum wages for domestic workers : impact evaluation of the Indian experience
Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra; Jacob, Arun - 2018
the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …
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Widowhood and consumption of private assignable goods : the role of socio-economic status, rainfall shocks and historical institutions
Bandyopadhyay, Sutirtha; Maity, Bipasha - 2022
We study how weather shocks interact with cultural norms biased against women to affect female poverty within the household. Using expenditure on female assignable clothing per adult woman as a measure of women's intra-household access to consumption, we document that spending on female...
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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...
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Cooking fuel choice, indoor air quality and child mortality in India
Basu, Arnab K.; Byambasuren, Tsenguunjav; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
Indoor air pollution (IAP) - predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking - is a global health threat, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths worldwide in developing countries. We estimate the causal effect of cooking fuel choice on...
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The Arab Spring and the employability of youth : early evidence from Egypt
Selwaness, Irene; Roushdy, Rania - 2017
(SYPE), we estimate the probability of transition to any first job within 18-month of finishing education and that of …
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