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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, as expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444153
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Technology Adoption and Schooling: Amplifier Income Effects of Policies Across Countries
Restuccia, Diego - 1998
adoption and schooling decisions, and show that in this environment the required productivity/distortion differences are much … smaller. The schooling and technology adoption features of the model amplify the effects of productivity … disparity than a standard model. Moreover, I find that it is the interaction between the technology adoption and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447274
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Globalization and child labor
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010
main factors leading to child labor, the book addresses supply side determinants by emphasizing the gender …-specific differences in the trade-off between different forms of work and schooling (based on North Indian evidence). The subsequent … the book addresses the causal effects of trade liberalization on regional child labor and schooling outcomes in Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448903
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Education and Entrepreneurship in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-analysis
Sluis, J. vander; Praag, C.M. van; Vijverberg, W. - 2004
This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … to a marginal year of schooling in terms of the income it generates is 6.1 percent in the U.S.A. Fourth, the effect of … greatly benefit from the technical sophistication used to estimate the returns to schooling for employees by means of twins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460016
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FDI, Education, and Economic Growth: Quality Matters!
Wang, Miao; Wang, Miao; Wong, M. C. Sunny - 2011
developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal … quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International … between inward FDI and schooling still exists, but the threshold level of schooling in our study is lower than the threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484494
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Child labor under cash and in-kind transfers: evidence from rural Mexico
Tagliati, Federico - 2019
different margins of adjustment across the income distribution can be rationalized by a model in which preferences for schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012523687
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432547
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057
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Cultural dimensions and CRM systems: a structurational analysis
Ali, M; Brooks, L; Alshawi, S - 2008
countries. The authors have investigated the implementation of CRM systems within the same organization in Egypt and UK. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465576