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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251
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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market: Effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012
around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282428
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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil?s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261832
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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
Lemos, Sara - 2004
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261833
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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
There is very little empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper estimates the minimum wage price effect using monthly Brazilian household and firm data from 1982 to 2000 aggregated at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261834
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal sector, where most of the poor are. Extending the understanding of minimum wage effects both in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261848
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
Lemos, Sara - 2004
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261885
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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Lemos, Sara - 2004
Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261887