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Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity : The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China
Xing, Chunbing - 2019
We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young women has recently disappeared. We propose that the...
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2018
The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children's non-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915708
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - 2021
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
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North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South : The Case of Mexico
Otero, Rafael; Hazarika, Gautam - 2021
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
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Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico : A Descriptive Analysis
Angelucci, Manuela - 2009
Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155163
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Family Networks and School Enrolment : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
Angelucci, Manuela - 2009
extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames …
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131931
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
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