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Human capital and the adoption of information and communications technologies: Evidence from investment climate survey of Pakistan
Mughal, Mazhar; Diawara, Barassou - 2011
Technologies (ICT) in the Pakistani firms using the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2002-07. The paper considers various indicators of … human capital and measures of ICT adoption and diffusion. On-the-job training, manager's level of qualification and … size, sales and workers' compensation are also positively associated with the use of ICT. The findings show the importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305853
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Income redistributive propensities of self-employment, ICT and remittances : panel quantile regression with nonadditive fixed effects perspective
Uche, Emmanuel; Ngepah, Nicholas - In: Journal of international commerce, economics and policy 14 (2023) 3, pp. 1-24
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438199
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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285538
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Is There a Correlation between Religion and Wife Beating? An Empirical Study of 11 Countries
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Wife beating, spousal abuse, domestic violence, or whatever else you want to call it, has been around for centuries, probably since the beginning of human existence. There are several reasons why this kind of behavior exists, but the present paper will not get into those reasons. For more on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121034
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Can the composition of capital constrain potential output? A gap approach
Albala-Bertrand, Jose Miguel - 2004
, estimated via linear programming, and illustrated with the cases of Chile and Mexico over the 1950-2000 period. The results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289036
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Skill Upgrading and the Real Exchange Rate
Alvarez, Roberto; López, Ricardo A. - 2008
This paper examines the effect of changes in the real exchange rate on skill upgrading in the case of Chile. Using … inequality. This paper also finds that real depreciations increase the probability of exporting and the export intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216597
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Local Distributional Effects of Government Cash Transfers in Chile
Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Phil - 2007
Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and regional levels. The impact of cash subsidies to poor households on … local inequality is thus not well understood. Using poverty-mapping methods to asses this impact, we find heterogeneity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223890
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The impact of family composition on educational achievement
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Yen-Chien; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2014
Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335624
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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production
Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264348
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
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