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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers
Bau, Natalie - 2017
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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Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries
Rama, Martin - 2017
deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it … discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971041
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The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2019
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871007
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Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia
De Ree, Joppe Jaitze - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941921
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Training Teachers on the Job : What Works and How to Measure it
Arancibia, Violeta - 2017
A significant body of research demonstrates that teachers and the quality of their teaching are crucial components of student learning. Many teachers in resource-poor environments have limited knowledge, skills, or motivation. Some impact evaluations have shown promising results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967941
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school and how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, correlate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856883
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On-the-Job Training : Returns, Barriers to Provision, and Policy Implications
Saraf, Priyam - 2017
critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954312
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The Influence of Non-Cognitive Skills on Wages within and between Firms : Evidence from Bangladesh's Formal Sector
Nomura, Shinsaku - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957067
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Exports and Job Training
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936142
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The Effect of Height on Earnings : Is Stature Just a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
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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