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explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative demand equation … developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing … be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana. …
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. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational …
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wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data from Ghana we provide evidence supporting …
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demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber …
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help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public …
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This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …
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We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
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We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …
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This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...
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The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both benefits and costs, but the net effects for local...
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