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A job worth waiting for: Parental wealth and youth unemployment in Ghana
De Mel, Stephanie - 2020
Youth unemployment in Ghana increases in parental wealth. This occurs because, without unemployment insurance, only workers with sufficiently high parental wealth can afford to remain unemployed, and do so to search for scarce, high-productivity jobs. I estimate a structural model of endogenous...
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
the US does not only affect related knowledge of students and adulthood attitudes, but also translates into high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348132
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A job worth waiting for : parental wealth and youth unemployment in Ghana
Mel, Stephanie de - 2020
Youth unemployment in Ghana increases in parental wealth. This occurs because, without unemployment insurance, only workers with sufficiently high parental wealth can afford to remain unemployed, and do so to search for scarce, high-productivity jobs. I estimate a structural model of endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253268
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Entry into working life: Spatial mobility and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates
Venhorst V.; Cörvers F. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
We estimate the impact of spatial mobility on job match quality by using a data set of recent Dutch university and college graduates We find positive wage returns related to spatial mobility. However, after controlling for the self-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no...
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
the US does not only affect related knowledge of students and adulthood attitudes, but also translates into high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342692
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Occupational Choice and the E¤ects of Skill Supply on Relative Wages
Kurtzon, Gregory - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2013
It is shown that an economy where agents with one dimensional skill choose among occupations as intermediate complementary inputs with di¤erent learning costs has an equilibrium hierarchy from the lowest cost/skill/wage occupations to the highest which agents will cascade along away from the...
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Growth, inequality and innovation: A CGE analysis of India
Ojha, Vijay P.; Pradhan, Basanta K.; Ghosh, Joydeep - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 6, pp. 909-927
This paper probes into the growth and distributional consequences of four basic policy options emanating from the three sources of economic growth, namely, physical capital, human capital and technological progress, with the help of a computable general equilibrium model of India. The simulation...
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LA EDUCACIÓN COMO MOTOR DE DESARROLLO INTEGRAL: La importancia del capital humano en el crecimiento económico y social de largo plazo
Acuña, Oscar Andrés Espinosa; González, Paola Andrea Vaca - UN - RCE - CID - 2012
La presente investigación tiene por finalidad demostrar que las inversiones en educación primaria, secundaria y universitaria son vitales para el crecimiento, la equidad y el progreso económico del país, siendo variables primordiales que explican el desarrollo sostenible y eficiente de una...
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Socio-religious Disparity in Educational Achievements: A District Level study in West Bengal
Hati, Koushik Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Education is a powerful catalyst for the change of a society and plays a crucial role in the development of a nation. In recent years, education has been included as a key component of Human Development Index. As a result, social and regional disparities in educational achievement drag back...
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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier
Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based … that there exists a constant level of skilled and unskilled human capital in the imitation-only and innovation-only regimes …. In the imitation-innovation regime stock of skilled human capital rises whereas that of unskilled human capital falls in …
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