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Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's...
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This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey, the paper examines the impact of...
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differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages …
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correlations between wages and the so-called "big five" personality traits, and augments the analysis with the latent personality … significant correlations between personality traits and wages, within and across firms. The results appear to indicate that non … positive correlation between "emotional stability" and wages and a negative correlation between "grit" and wages, especially …
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correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …
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This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker-firm data for Brazilian manufacturing, linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. The analysis uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to...
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How does a large unconditional increase in salary affect the performance of incumbent employees in the public sector? This paper presents experimental evidence on this question in the context of a policy change in Indonesia that led to a permanent doubling of teachers' base salaries. The...
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This study investigates the degree to which the association of height and earnings in Pakistan is independent of other cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher cognitive ability. Thus, there is debate concerning the...
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of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …
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