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Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation : evidence from the manufacturing sector in India
Baranwal, Gunja - 2016
skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of … effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain …
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An intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers with special reference to human capital and deferred compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
positive effect on entry wages and wage-tenure profiles are adjusted according to entry age. -- Deferred compensation ; human … capital ; internal labor markets ; older workers ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003802942
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Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation : evidence from the manufacturing sector in India
Baranwal, Gunja - In: Journal of international trade & economic development : … 28 (2019) 2, pp. 137-160
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Foreign shares, human capital and wage inequality : evidence from Indian manufacturing firms
Baranwal, Gunja - In: Modern economy 8 (2017) 9, pp. 1150-1166
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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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Technological change, skill demand, and wage inequality in Indonesia
Lee, Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - 2013
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...
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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument
Winters, John V. - 2014
Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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