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Relationship of Income Inequality and Labor Productivity on Fertility in the Philippines: 1985-2009.
Macan, Vaneza Jean; Deluna, Roperto Jr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
(output per capita) on fertility rate in the Philippines. Specifically, this presents the trend of income inequality (ineq …), labor productivity (lp) and fertility(tfr) in the Philippines from 1985 to 2009. The study uses Ordinary Least Square (OLS … negative relationship with fertility. Hence, an increase in this variable decreases fertility rate. This means that income …
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Some socio-economic determinants of fertility in Pakistan: an empirical analysis
Chani, Muhammad Irfan; Shahid, Muhammad; Hassan, Mahboob Ul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
, urbanization and female labour force participation play in determining fertility of women in Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach … to 2009. Empirical results show that there exists a long run as well as short run relationship between fertility and … relationship between all three determinants with fertility. Female education and urbanization of the society play significant role …
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Foreign Direct Investment, Child Labour and Unemployment of Unskilled Labour in a Dual Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a three-sector specific-factor Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model the paper demonstrates how an inflow of foreign capital might produce favourable effect on the incidence of child labour in a small open dual economy. The welfare of the working families is likely to improve due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596424
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Mid-day Meal Program and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The present paper purports to examine the consequence of mid-day meal program and/or cash stipend scheme on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy using a three-sector general equilibrium model. It has been found that the policy may be counterproductive as it lowers both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836138
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Child labour in the presence of agricultural dualism: possible cures
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper using a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and child labour shows that any fiscal measures designed to benefit backward agriculture cannot cure the problem of child labour in a developing economy although they raise the non-child labour income of the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550547
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Labour Market Reform and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper is purported to examine the consequences of possible labour market reform in the developing economies on the incidence of child labour and economic well-being of the child labour supplying families. A two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium structure with child labour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476366
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Poverty alleviation programs, FDI-led growth and child labour under agricultural dualism
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper is aimed at providing a theoretical explanation why policies that affect only the supply side of the child labour problem may not be able to mitigate the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919745
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Agricultural Dualism, Incidence of Child Labour and Subsidy Policies
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper purports to examine the validity of the common belief that in a developing economy the backward agricultural sector should be subsidized as poorer group of the working population are employed in this sector that send their children out to work out of sheer poverty. A three-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578301
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Child Labour and Economic Growth: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Chatterjee, Tonmoy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this note, we construct a four sector static general equilibrium model of a small open economy with special consideration to the incidence of child labour. The paper examines the impact of FDI on the output levels of different sectors and also on the incidence of child labour. Here we have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108496
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El empleo de los jóvenes en España: Del bloqueo en la entrada del mercado de trabajo a los programas de Garantía Juvenil
Malo, Miguel; Cueto, Begoña - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this article consists of analyzing the impact of the economic on working careers of different birth cohorts. We use the micro-data of the Spanish Labour Force Survey from 1976 to 2013 to calculate the labour market trajectory of men and women by birth cohort. During the crisis,...
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