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In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the …
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supports. Using data for Peru in the period 1986-2000, I found that this problem of non-comparability accounts for 23% and 30 … explicitly recognizing these differences in the supports. In this way, the 45% gender wage gap in Peru is decomposed as: 11 …
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Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining …
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Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand.
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understood. The authors use data from Peru to analyze the determinants of within-industry share of skilled workers. They use a …
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We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We...
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