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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2008
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269004
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Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700846
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262438
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Testing the 'brain gain' hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde
Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272710
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274183
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861410
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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Hossain, Md Shahadath - 2022
Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates over the life cycle, we examine how a newly introduced pension program, the National Rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470505
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The Impact of a Multifaceted Program on Fragile Individuals. Evidence from an RCT in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - 2024
individuals in four separate but related areas of household welfare: employment, financial circumstances, family responsibilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533897
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Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?
Maczulskij, Terhi; Böckerman, Petri - 2017
matched to comprehensive register-based, individual-level information on income and employment status. The long-term labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744485