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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access … more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
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Preferences, purchasing power parity, and inequality : analytical framework, propositions, and empirical evidence
Majumder, Amita; Ray, Ranjan; Santra, Sattwik - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343470
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Comparable estimates of returns to schooling around the world
Montenegro, Claudio; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430015
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The mechanics of progress in education
Mingat, Alain; Tan, Jee-Peng - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000998599
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Measuring education inequality : Gini coefficients of education
Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan; Fan, Xibo - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001562556
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Functional literacy, heterogeneity and the returns to schooling : multi-country evidence
Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Sakellariou, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221251
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Knowledge and development : a cross-section approach
Chen, Derek Hung Chiat; Dahlman, Carl J. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002184874
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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world
Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228183
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Regulation and internet use in developing countries
Wallsten, Scott J. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001751768
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Do information technologies improve teenagers' sexual education? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombia
Chong, Alberto; González-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; … - 2019
This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course …
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