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The Impact of Education on the Behaviour of Labor Supply in Cameroon: an Analysis using the Nested Multinomial Logit Model
Ndjobo, Nga; Marie, Patrick; Abessolo, Yves André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article renders an analysis of the impact of education on labour supply behaviour, particularly in terms of … individuals who constitute the labour supply being faced with four alternatives (domestic activities, the informal, the public and … education is at most equivalent to theirs. Therefore, signals sent by job-seekers to employers, requesting access demand to …
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Credit Constraints in Higher Education in a Context of Unobserved Heterogeneity
Villena, Mauricio; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article tests the existence of credit constraints on higher education access by estimating actual marginal returns in the context of unobserved heterogeneity. We estimate higher education returns for those who attend to it and compare them with those of individuals who are at the margin of...
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Agrarian distress and rural non-farm sector employment in India
Abraham, Vinoj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The rural labour market in India is still virtually, to a large extent, dominated by the agriculture related workers, both cultivators and hired workers consisting of more than 70 percent of the rural workforce even in the current decade. However, there have been signs of a shift from farm to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370813
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Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...
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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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Human Capital Formation during Communism and Transition: Evidence from Bulgaria
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Is it true that communist countries had well-developed human capital, or is it just a myth? What were human capital stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We attempt to answer these questions using evidence from...
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Since 1950, U.S. educational attainment has increased substantially. While the median student in 1950 dropped out of high school, the median student today attends some college. In an environment with ability heterogeneity and positive sorting between ability and school tenure, the expansion of...
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A Cross-national analysis of the relations between school choice and effectiveness differences between private-independent and public schools
Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of the disparity in school effectiveness between the privately owned, privately funded school sector and the public one in a sample of 25 countries in Europe, America and Asia. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and...
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100 years of educational reforms in Europe: a contextual database
Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This report presents the macro data on educational reforms collected for the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The first and chore part provides an analytical overview of the educational reforms that may have affected the skill level of Europe’s elderly population....
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