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Effective public policy which can reduce gender discrimination in the agricultural labour market: A theoretical investigation
Kundu, Amit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Wage and employment differences between male and female agricultural labourers in the under developed countries including India is not new. With the help of a simple theoretical model it is here proved that public policy like implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114311
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The managerial culture and its impact on economic development of Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economic development presumes not only the existence of formal institutions such as property rights and the rule of law under which behave economic agents, but also certain norms or social values that promote exchange, savings and investments. In this context, we discuss cultural dimension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111754
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Heaven knows I’m miserable now: overeducation and reduced life satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study is an investigation into relative overeducation and life satisfaction using British longitudinal data. The … focus is on young people rather than the whole of the life cycle, avoiding the possibility that overeducation may simply … overeducation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259305
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Education-occupation mismatch in Turkish labor market
Filiztekin, Alpay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
data from two different years examines the incidence of overeducation in Turkey. The findings show that there is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372476
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Are educational mismatches responsible for the ‘inequality increasing effect’ of education?
Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper asks whether educational mismatches can account for the positive association between education and wage inequality found in the data. We use two different data sources, the European Community Household Panel and the Portuguese Labour Force Survey, and consider several types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564524
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Education and Inequality: Evidence from Spain
Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
How do the family and personal characteristics of an individual influence his/her edu-cational attainment? How do the labour market prospects change when he/she receives further education? This article intends to answer these two questions. To that purpose, it reviews the most recent literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837246
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Government and human capital in a model of development through modernization and specialization
Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Economic development is associated with the shift of production from the traditional sector (e.g. traditional agriculture and the urban informal sector) to the modern sector (e.g. modern manufacturing and commercial agriculture). Human capital accumulation, particularly, education and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476367
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Overeducation and spatial flexibility in Italian local labour markets
Croce, Giuseppe; Ghignoni, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
overeducation we use individual information about daily home-to-work commuting time and choices to relocate in a different local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871201
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Immigration, Skill Heterogeneity and Qualification Mismatch
Liu, Xiangbo; Palivos, Theodore; Zhang, Xiaomeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
of the low-skilled. Nevertheless, below a certain overeducation ratio, further improvements in the transferability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107823
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Heaven knows I’m miserable now: overeducation and reduced life satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study is an investigation into relative overeducation and life satisfaction using British longitudinal data. The … the overeducation variable does not simply capture the increased participation in Higher Education of the young. The … hypothesis is that there is a negative relationship between being overeducated and life satisfaction. Overeducation is measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258145