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types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …
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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students … years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
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migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more …
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We use queuing-related behavior as an instrument for assessing the social appeal of alternative cultural norms. Specifically, we study the behavior of rational and sophisticated individuals who stand in a given queue waiting to be served, and who, in order to speed up the process, consider...
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It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio between estimated potential labor income and the welfare payment level on the probability of leaving social...
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