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Child rights & child development in India: a regional analysis
Roy, Chandan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
employment’ and ‘exploitation’. However, despite the existence of many legal provisions, the vulnerability of Indian children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260038
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Technological Change and Immigration Policy
Gomez-Ruano, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to address the effects of technological progress on immigrant skill composition. Our results from this positive model suggest that neutral and skill-biased technological change imply essentially different immigration policies. On the one hand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262751
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Amenities and the labor earnings function
Graves, Philip E.; Arthur, Michelle M.; Sexton, Robert L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
I was unable to copy/paste the abstract, but the paper argues that amenities exert an important effect on wage differentials over space. Indeed, we show that as much has half of the apparent effect of unionization on wages is actually compensation for less desirable climate in locations that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567673
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Unintended Consequences of Childcare Regulation in Chile: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Villena, Mauricio G.; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
pays (i.e. firms or employees) and how it pays (i.e. via wages and/or employment). This study is the first one to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186477
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Soap Operas for for Female Micro Entrepreneur Training
Nakasone, Eduardo; Torero, Maximo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We analyze the impact of the Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru (SWEP) program. SWEP trained female micro-entrepreneurs on business management practices (e.g. accounting, marketing, etc.). The training was provided in 4-5 hour sessions using soap operas and practical exercises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118517
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Real Wages, Wage Inequality and the Regional Cost-of-living in the UK
Cinzia, Rienzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
University graduates in the UK are more concentrated in regions where the cost of housing is higher, implying that they face a higher cost-of-living that could possibly reduce the graduate real wage relative to other groups and carry implications for measures of wage dispersion. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647344
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Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matters
Gourdon, Julien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The relationship between trade liberalization and inequality has received considerable attention in recent years. The primary purpose of this paper is to present new results on the sources of wage inequalities in manufacturing taking into account South-South (S-S) trade. Globalization not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619332
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Ethnic Wage Inequality in Vietnam: Empirical Evidence from 2002
Pham, T. Hung; Reilly, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper complements earlier studies on ethnic minority underdevelopment in Vietnam by empirically examining the ethnic wage gap in the Vietnamese labour market, using data from a large-scale household survey conducted in 2002. The paper uses the ‘index number’ decomposition method...
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Regional Disparities in Wage Employment Dynamics: A Decade of Economic Reforms in India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries both from a national and a … regional perspective. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period with special … regular employment, and shifting in favour of tertiary sector jobs – the pace decelerating in the second half of the study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372550
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Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers: Are wage expectations too high?
Gray, Matthew; Renda, Jenny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
important factor in explaining relatively low employment rates among mothers by comparing reservation hourly wages with the … labour market, then this is likely to make it difficult to find employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616944