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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values
El Badaoui, Eliane; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018
This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931656
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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2007
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries … the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries …, somewhat mixed in Togo (with positive effects in 2nd and negative effects in 5th grade) and negative in Niger. This ordering is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268502
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261794
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028
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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262210
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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment
Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262509
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Polarisation and health
Blanco Pérez, Cristina; Ramos, Xavier - 2008
This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health, and which have been traditionally proxied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268538
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Local social capital and geographical mobility: a theory
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2008
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268578
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Local social capital and geographical mobility: some empirics and a conjecture on the nature of European unemployment
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2008
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268633
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Segregation, entrepreneurship and work values: the case of France
Senik, Claudia; Verdier, Thierry - 2008
This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of work values and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside the minority group is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268870