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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However, it...
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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The Columbia Labor Workshop : the rise and decline of an intellectual community
Teixeira, Pedro - In: Revue d'économie politique 131 (2021) 4, pp. 665-691
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
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Youth labor force participation, education, and human capital in Asia, by gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
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Princelings and Paupers? State Employment and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments Among Households in Viet Nam
Coxhead, Ian - 2016
investments based on differential access to jobs that reward skills and/or credentials help widen existing income and earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995446
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Princelings and Paupers? State Employment and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments Among Vietnamese Households
Coxhead, Ian; Phan, Diep N. - 2013
investments based on differential access to jobs that reward skills and/or credentials help widen existing income and earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157995
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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