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This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
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. Homosexual women, on the other hand, experience higher earnings than their heterosexual female counterparts, and the law shrinks … this gap over time. Our results suggest that although the earnings differential may be due to the marriage premium, anti … to marry could reduce the earnings inequality without creating potentially significant labor market distortions. …
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This paper investigates human capital and socio-economic factors in order to find out the personal earnings of workers …, different education level, employment status, and tehsil dummies are used to investigate the determinants of personal earnings …
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This paper analyzes the macroeconomic role that different household groups play in human capital formation, sectoral growth and income distribution in Rwanda. Using a disaggregated SAM for Rwanda and with the assistance of structural path analysis, the paper explores the macroeconomic...
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In this article we propose a model of growth with human capital accumulation, in which individuals allocate their time among work, education and socio-political participation. Socio-political participation, while subtracting time to education, positively affects individual’s utility; the...
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, earnings exemptions, and time limits—referred to as new reform strategies—appear to explain at least 16 percent of observed …
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countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …
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In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … training and vocational institute training for the current occupation have highly significant effects on earnings, with work … significantly negative effect on the earnings of those with high cognitive test scores, the previous-occupation counterparts do not …
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A study of earnings in the culture sector is important to an understanding of the vitality of this sector. It is also …
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At the micro level, economists seek to understand and interpret the decision making process of individuals for investment in human capital, as well as the many factors that can influence this process. On the other hand, the economics of education is concerned with the impacts of individual...
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