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Education and Youth Economic Participation in Argentina. An analysis of its determinants (2004-2009)
Groisman, Fernando; Calero, Analía V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the determinants of school attendance and labor participation of young people between 15 and 18 years old in Argentina. The empirical analysis is based on bivariate probit models for the period 2004-2009 with data coming from the Permanent Household Survey –INDEC–. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260461
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Future Economic Strategy of the Czech Republic as an EU Member State
Tošenovský, Filip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The article discusses the economic and political position of the Czech republic as an EU member state and comments on its potential future problems related to a greater expansion of the EU.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837200
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Disaggregating rates of return to education
Khan, Shahrukh R.; Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990
Education is effectively used as a discontinuous variable in studies estimating the rates of return by level of … education. We find that the normal procedure used for estimating the rate of return to broad aggregates such as secondary and …, as expected, that broad aggregations that ignore sub-levels of education result in a loss of important insights about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108036
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Does Schooling Pay? Evidence from China
La, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The effect of education on wages has been a widely explored topic. This paper will contribute to the existing … literature by studying the causal effect of education on wages in China, a context which has been far less studied. China …'s compulsory education laws and minimum age labor laws provide potentially exogenous changes in educational attainment. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108942
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The relationship between elderly employment and youth employment: evidence from China
Zhang, Chuanchuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Retirement system reforms such as postponing retirement age in law are needed in China because of its rapid population aging. The overquick aging will result in both shortage of labor force supply and incubus of the social security system. The Chinese government acknowledged the negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654243
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Returns to Qualification in Informal Employment: A Study of Urban Youth in Egypt
Frost, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Informal employment is a reality for roughly two-thirds of economically active youth in urban Egypt, and it has been argued to be correlated with poverty, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement. This essay analyzes whether informal employment rewards job qualification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961518
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Minimum Wages and Youth Employment
Gorry, Aspen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Significant employment differences between the US and Europe are concentrated among young workers. This paper constructs a labor search model that accounts for age patterns of employment. Work experience reduces the probability that workers lose their jobs. By introducing minimum wages, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646827
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Youth Wage Employment and Parental Education in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper looks at the relationship between the likelihood of being in regular wage employment and parental education … for Malawian youth. It uses data from the third integrated household survey (IHS3). Only a mother's education is found to …. It is established that the effect of a mother's education on young males is significantly larger than that for young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111749
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Caste and Rural Youth in India: Education, Skills and Employment
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper examines the changing nature of employment situation of rural youth in India by social group status, during the last two decades. The large part of the analysis in this paper is based on the NSSO quinquennial surveys on employment and unemployment. In this respect we have used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113433
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延迟退休年龄会挤出年轻人就业吗?
Zhang, Chuanchuan; Zhao, Yaohui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the situation of rapid population aging, postponing retirement is a timely and effective measure in relieving pressure of old age support. However, many people think that postponing retirement will crowd out youth employment. Using data in China, this paper shows that this judgment cannot be...
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