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Informal labor market and access to education in developing economies
REBIERE, Therese - EcoMod Network - 2011
This paper studies the impact of access to education in a search and matching model of the labor market representing a developping economy. It then addresses the issue of the impact on the market efficiency of public policies aiming at increasing education. Developing economies are well known...
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School Choice and Switching Costs
Paredes, Ricardo; Chumacero, Rómulo; Gallegos, Juan - EcoMod Network - 2012
The voucher in education firmly relies on the parent´s ability to choose their child´s school. One factor which may reduce this choice is the presence of switching costs, caused by factors such as the stress that children experience and the loss of social networks. We develop a methodology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887907
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The career intention of informal workers in China: voluntary or forced?
Zuo, Hong; Nemoto, Jiro - EcoMod Network - 2014
There have been many studies show that there are significant differences in wages between China's workers engaged in formal employment and informal employment, but very few studied the career intention of informal workers. Informally workers in such a disadvantageous position, are they voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902632
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The Changing Rates of Return to Education in India: A Study of Recent Evidences
Singhari, Smrutirekha; Madheswaran, S. - EcoMod Network - 2014
In this study, we review the previous pattern of return to education and an attempt is also being made to estimate the recent pattern of return to education in India. The conventional pattern of return to education stated by Psacharopoulos (1993) is tested in Indian context. The purpose of...
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Constraints to women’s entrepreneurship and welfare in developing countries
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Goyette, Jonathan; ANGBO, Cho … - EcoMod Network - 2014
Women in developing countries invest a larger part of their income in their children’s nutrition, health and education than men (Hoddinott et al., 1995; Strauss et al., 2000; Gammage, 2006; Quisumbing et al., 2006). As a result, financial resources acquired by women bring forth a long-time reduction in...
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In search of FDI-led growth in developing countries
Klasen, Stephan; Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2007
This paper challenges the widespread belief that FDI generally has a positive impact on economic growth in developing … countries. It addresses the limitations of the existing literature and re-examines the FDI-led growth hypothesis for 28 … countries FDI has no statistically significant long-run impact on growth. In very few cases, FDI indeed contributes to economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296028
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Corruption, economic growth and the informal sector: Empirical evidence from developing countries
Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to in-depth literature on the relationship between growth and the … informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330033
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How does foreign direct investment really affect developing countries' growth?
Herzer, Dierk - 2010
This paper contributes to the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in two main ways. First …, we examine the effect of FDI on economic growth for 44 developing countries over the period 1970 to 2005 using … studies, we find that FDI has, on average, a negative effect on growth in developing countries, but that there are large cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286643
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Drivers of developing Asia's growth : past and future
Park, Donghyun; Park, Jungsoo - 2010
-term challenge of sustaining growth beyond the crisis. The central objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the sources … of economic growth in 12 developing Asian economies during 1992–2007 via a two-stage analysis. In the first stage, we … estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG) and account for the relative importance of labor, capital, and TFPG in growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826310
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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? : the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011 - This version: November 15, 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …
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