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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia
Acosta, Pablo - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between individuals? skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia?s urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey
Nas Ozen, Selin Efsan - 2020
A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered. This study seeks to address this question and further investigates whether socioemotional skill signals in job applicants' resumes have the...
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....
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Heterogenous Peer Effects, Segregation and Academic Attainment
Lugo, Maria Ana - 2017
Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out...
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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...
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Is Formal Lifelong Learning a Profitable Investment for All of Life? How Age, Education Level, and Flexibility of Provision Affect Rates of Return to Adult Education in Colombia
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2006
Lifelong learning is increasingly being recognized as a primary factor for knowledge diffusion and productivity growth. However, little economic evidence exists on the economic value of lifelong learning for the individual, especially in developing countries. This paper contributes to remedy...
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School Grants and Education Quality : Experimental Evidence from Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2017
The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed schools to apply for funding for improvements of...
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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017
Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …
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The Effect of the Swedish Payroll Tax Cut for Youths on Firm Profitability
Malm, Arvid - 2017
of this tax cut was to lower youth unemployment. The question of how gains from payroll taxes are distributed between …
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The Impact of an Adolescent Girls Employment Program : The Epag Project in Liberia
Adoho, Franck - 2017
This paper presents findings from the impact evaluation of the Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (EPAG) project in Liberia. The EPAG project was launched by the Liberian Ministry of Gender and Development in 2009 with the goal of increasing the employment and income of...
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