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The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Sohnesen, Thomas Pave; Trifkovic, Neda - 2018

This paper estimates how private returns to education have evolved in the context of postconflict transformation in Mozambique. This has been characterized by rapid economic growth, significant expansion of the schooling system, but also limited structural change in a labour market dominated by...

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Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa

Lam, David; Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray - 2015

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...

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Subjective returns to education: Rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

Balasubramanian, Pooja - 2020

This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected returns for different levels of education in an environment that includes labour market discrimination. We are particularly keen to observe subjective returns to education for...

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Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia: A gendered analysis

Samahiya, Obrein Muine; Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven - 2023

This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of education across the wage distribution and uses a...

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Misinformed, mismatched, or misled? Explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo; Xirinda, Gimelgo - 2020

Inaccurate expectations of future wages are found in many contexts. Yet, existing studies overwhelmingly refer to high-income countries, and there is little evidence regarding the sources of expectational errors. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduates from the six largest universities in...

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Private returns to education for wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda

Kavuma, Susan Namirembe; Morrissey, Oliver; Upward, Richard - 2015

The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and heterogeneous private returns to...

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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar

Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019

Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private … manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …. Value added gains, however, are not transferred to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

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Climate change and infrastructure investment in developing countries: The case of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Strzepek, Kenneth; … - 2011

Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing countries. To quantitatively assess climate change's consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on stressor-response relationships and link this to a...

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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018

Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK. Despite research exploring the experiences of child refugees and asylum...

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Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil

Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Bonomo, Tiago - 2018

Education-related changes are often argued as the main reasons for changes in earnings distribution. However, omitted variable and measurement error biases possibly affect econometric estimates of these effects. Brazil experienced a sharp fall of individual labour income inequality between 1996...

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