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No Pass No Drive : Education and Allocation of Time
Barua, Rashmi - 2012
Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107705
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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209861
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Oversupply of labor and other peculiarities of arts labor market
Popović, Milenko; Ratković, Kruna - 2013
There are several striking peculiarities of the arts labor market that have attracted the attentions of researchers in the last several decades: first is constant long run excess supply of arts labor; second, artists are more likely to be multiple-job-holders than other professions; third,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201663
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Active Labor Market Programs : Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
Brown, Alessio J.G. - 2012
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099681
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Stabilizing the Macroeconomy with Labor Market Policies
Oh, Jong‐seok; Hong, Sung Wook - 2022
This study argues that aggregate demand management policies alone (which have traditionally been used to stabilize economies) may not be effective in the current crisis and argues that they should instead be implemented alongside labor market policies such as work sharing programs.The use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079221
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The Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Piza, Caio; Emerson, Patrick M.; Portela Souza, Andre; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083064
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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The returns to education: A review of the empirical macro-economic literature
Sianesi, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2002
The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired education may not be … still largely divided on whether the stock of education affects the long-run level or growth rate of the economy. A one …-year increase in average education is found to raise the level of output per capita by between 3 and 6 percent according to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293048
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A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298115
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322280