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Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana
Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761858
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DOES STOCK MARKET LIBERALISATION BENEFIT THE ECONOMY? EVIDENCE FROM INDUSTRY-LEVEL DATA
Tong, Lee Chee - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The paper examines the impact of stock market liberalisation on four industry-level economic variables, i) growth in real value added, ii) growth in real wages per worker, iii) growth in the number of employees and iv) growth in the number of firms using data on 18 developing countries for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365415
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Working poverty, social exclusion and destitution: An empirical study
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Shankar, Sriram; Rahman, Mustafa A. - In: Economic Modelling 37 (2014) C, pp. 241-250
In economics destitution is traditionally interpreted as a product of labour market exclusion. Our work departs from the dominant models of poverty by considering destitution among a specific category of workers known as the working poor. Low wages and job insecurity in the informal sector in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743999
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Bang for Your Buck: STI Risk and Pregnancy Risk as Sources of the Price Premium for Unprotected Sex
Manda, Constantine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Sex workers receive a price premium for unprotected sex. Research has inferred that the source of this premium is a compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a simple model that incorporates both STI risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110048
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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2002
education simply reflects the ability of the worker (through a signalling role). In this paper we describe and implement, using …. We find little support for signalling ideas in these tests. However, we have severe reservations about these results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269226
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Does Education Raise Productivity or Just Reflect It?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
whether education simply reflects the ability of the worker (through a signalling role). In this Paper we describe and … explanations. We find little support for signalling ideas in these tests. We have, however, severe reservations about these results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791987
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Consumption, Welfare and Well-Being in Ghana in the 1990s
Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
changes in consumption in Ghana in the 1990s. It is argued that household consumption can act as an opportunity measure of … averages of welfare change are presented. In Ghana is has been argued that poverty fell based on a consumption measure of …. Doing this for Ghana over the period of the 1990s reveals that while on average per capita consumption rose across all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605173
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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s
Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605176
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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s
Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407717
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Practical estimation methods for linked employer-employee data
Andrews, Martyn; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004
"Methods for the analysis of linked employer-employee data are not yet available in standard econometrics packages. In this paper, we make the fixed-effects methods developed orginally by Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and others more accessible, where possible, and show how they can be implemented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592407