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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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different margins of adjustment across the income distribution can be rationalized by a model in which preferences for schooling …
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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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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 …
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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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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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This dissertation examines how agricultural households allocate children?s time between work and schooling activities … investigate children?s time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using participation and hours data …
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The phenomenon of child labor is widespread in developing countries and emotionally discussed in the media and public. At present there is a well-developed and fast growing economic literature on child labor which covers the various aspects of child labor. In the first part of the thesis we give...
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Despite its exclusion from the Doha agenda, the issue of labor standards remains anintensely discussed subject among economists, policymakers, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations. In the past few years, both World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Labor Organization...
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