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generates a 1 percentage point increase in female college attendance and a 1 to 2 percentage point rise in female labor force …
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Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become … important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational … of people skills has affected the labor-market outcomes of under represented groups. We show that the acceleration rate …
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Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling rates, particularly in English. Existing evidence suggests the trends are broadly related. In this paper we explore how localized these impacts are; this has implications for...
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I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence. I begin by pointing out the strengths and limitations of existing data sources. I then describe six striking...
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have …
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a rate of growth of labor income, what really matters is the size of the adjustment factor which incorporates both rates …
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and education. …
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The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century …
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have dominated female labor supply decisions and nonworking women actually had more earnings potential than working women …. As an illustration, we give some attention to wives with advanced degrees -- they have high and stable labor force …
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