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Educação e o rendimento dos ricos no Brasil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Galvão, Juliana Castro - 2015
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...
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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment
Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...
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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017
This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel...
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Public wash programs, long-run child development, and intergenerational mobility : new evidence from rural People's Republic of China
Wang, Dongqin; Zou, Eddy Weijian - 2023
Using individual-level longitudinal data from 1989 to 2015, we examine the long-run effects of nationwide water plant construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health, and nutrition. We exploit the differential...
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Age diversity and innovation : do mixed teams of "old and experienced" and "young and restless" employees foster companies' innovativeness?
Hammermann, Andrea; Niendorf, Matthias; Schmidt, Jörg - 2019
). We find that a rise in the average age of a company's workforce has a negative impact on innovation, but age diversity …-specific knowledge gained during employment within a company. …
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Top management quality, corporate finance, and corporate innovation
Chemmanur, Thomas J.; Simonyan, Karen - 2017
its relation to various aspects of corporate financial policies and corporate innovation, and draw policy implications for … enhancing corporate innovation. First, we discuss how management quality has been measured in the recent empirical literature … investment policies, and on corporate innovation. Third, we consider the recent empirical literature on the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723785
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Demographic dividend, digital innovation, and economic growth : Bangladesh experience
Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz; Sarker, Tapan - 2021
This study aims to understand the linkages between demographic dividends, digital innovation, and economic growth … demographic transition to achieve faster economic growth while fostering digitization and technological innovation. Lessons …
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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016
Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...
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Are Chinese paying too much or too little for school quality? : the rent yield gap approach for estimating the capitalization of school quality in Shanghai
Zhang, Muyang; Chen, Jie - 2017
This paper explores how the unequal right of enrollment for public schools between households with different tenure statuses in urban People's Republic of China (PRC) affects rental yields. In the PRC, the rental yield is as low as 2% in major cities, mostly due to the lack of property tax and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637609
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Education, globalization, and income inequality in Asia
Park, Kang Hoon - 2017
This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The evidence supports the validity of Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis for the connection between income level and income inequality. However, when more variables are integrated into...
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