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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

income as a result of the law. -- minimum wage ; South Africa ; wage ; employment ; hours of work …

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Mental health : the new frontier for labour economics

Layard, Richard - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-16

satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also …

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The role of trust in the resource allocation process of an old university

Manochin, Melina M. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 38-52

The issue of effective management accounting systems, and especially the resource allocation procedures, have attracted considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several universities adopt different approaches to the...

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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section … surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these … be the consequence of a flattening of the income-age profile and hence a reduction in the returns to experience …

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Die Weitergabe von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und intellektuellen Fähigkeiten von Eltern an ihre Kinder

Anger, Silke - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 29, pp. 3-12

Die Studie untersucht für Deutschland, in welchem Ausmaß intellektuelle Fähigkeiten und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Eltern an ihre Kinder im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter weitergegeben werden. Auf Basis repräsentativer Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt sich, dass...

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What happens after enrollment? : an analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Spenner, Ken - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point averages falls by half between the students’ freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to reduce racial differences. However, this convergence...

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Higher education externalities in Egyptian labor markets

Nazier, Hanan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 193-217

Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with governorate level data, this paper estimated the external return to higher education for individuals in Egypt in 2010. The results suggested that these externalities are negative and exist only for female workers, while for males these externalities...

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Voucher system and school effectiveness : reassessing school performance difference and parental choice decision-making

Carrasco, Alejandro; San Martín, Ernesto - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 123-141

This paper discusses the potential contribution of employing school effectiveness methodological approach within the … ongoing research debate on school choice issues. Using the first approach, we estimate the effectiveness of a sample of … with respect to the school effect, we use a longitudinal data set (SIMCE 2004 and SIMCE 2006) from which a natural pseudo …

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How does the labour's market dynamic influence the level of the public pension in Romania in the actual economic context?

Bîlbîe, Ioana - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 20 (2013) 5, pp. 107-114

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Labor income and oil wealth : a broader sustainability framework for Saudi Arabia

Al Sheikh, Hend; Erbaş, S. Nuri - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 5 (2013) 2, pp. 1-31

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