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Child labor and schooling responses to production and health shocks in northern Mali:
Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique … shocks. Assets such as livestock have mixed effects on child labor and schooling, depending on the shock and asset type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038087
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Who Are Schooled in Urban Pakistan?
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005
Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561544
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The child penalty: Evidence from Spain
de Quinto, Alicia; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496128
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make inferences about the relationships between specific aspects of economic … growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
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What factors Influence internal migration and wage growth? : an empirical analysis of private formal sector in Bolgatanga-Ghana
Awuse, Nicholas; Tandoh-Offin, Patrick - In: Business and Economic Research : BER 4 (2014) 1, pp. 23-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379495
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Technology, labour characteristics and wage-productivity gaps
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 67 (2005) 5, pp. 623-645
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003142832
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Technology, labor characteristics and wage-productivity gaps
Ilmakunnas, Pekka (contributor); Maliranta, Mika (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776956
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Labour characteristics and wage-productivity gaps
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - In: New Zealand economic papers 36 (2002) 1, pp. 73-74
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001721683
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Black-white differences in schooling and employment
Rivkin, Steven G. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 30 (1995) 4, pp. 826-852
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001190882
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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance : does more schooling reduce earnings risk?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 323-338
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222454