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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...
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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 …
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-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 … benefits from the increasing production, while at the same time policies actively promote schooling, the reduction of trade …
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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 … education on earnings is smaller for entrepreneurs than for employees in Europe, but equal or larger in the U.S.A.. The fifth …
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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 …
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different margins of adjustment across the income distribution can be rationalized by a model in which preferences for schooling … respect a luxury axiom and the household could forego child labor earnings only when the transfer pushes consumption above …
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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...
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entrepreneurship as a subject of research becomes even more complex. The increase in numbers of immigrants in most advanced economies …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, in the early 1970s only 40,000 immigrants were registered performing self-employment activities, and their businesses …
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earnings. An important dimension of human capital theory distinguishes between general human capital and specific human capital … on the earnings cost of displacement by distinguishing the earnings losses between high technology (hi-tech) displaced … workers and low-tech displaced workers. Earnings losses are estimated using a generalized difference-in-difference model which …
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In recognizing the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation as the principal drivers of economic growth, this paper focuses on the human attributes that govern the behavior of the entrepreneur and the societal perceptions that influence the human environment in which the entrepreneur...
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