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presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …
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income inequality in Indonesia. These findings suggest that any policy aimed at reducing unequal access to education and …Growing inequality is one important problem for a developing country, and Indonesia is no exception. Narrowing the gap … data in Indonesia (Indonesia Family Life Survey), we are motivated to investigate the source of income inequality in …
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migrants in Indonesia. Using Population Census microdata from 2000 and 2010, I show that children who spend more time growing …
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outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic … mobility. We suggest an application for Indonesia. Exploiting IFLS data to match parents observed in 1993 to their children in …. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings were markedly to the advantage of women. A large …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...
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During the last decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in income...
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This paper takes a global, long-run perspective on the recent debate about secular stagnation, which has so far mainly focused on the short term. The analysis is motivated by observing the interplay between the economic and demographic transition that has occurred in the developed world over the...
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