The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of economic literature regarding theories that analyze the demand for higher education from a microeconomic perspective. Some of the noteworthy fundamental theories included in this review include Becker's (1983) theory of human capital and some...

This paper discuses the effect of the minimum wage on the decision to join the informal job sector. We estimated a pseudo panel of the engagement in the informal sector using an IV-probit. The findings show that an increase in the minimum wage leads to a substitution effect between young and...