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Educating in the East, emigrating to the West?
Kancs, D'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010
factors such as reinforced education of workers, productive investment of remittances, return migration and increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524024
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262781
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Does globalisation increase child labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410919
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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A New Data Set of Educational Inequality in the World, 1950-2010 : Gini Index of Education by Age Group
Wail, Benaabdelaali; Hanchane, Said; Kamal, Abdelhak - 2014
education by 5-year age intervals and by sex for a broad panel. We use the Gini index of education as a measure of the … country and for each age group. This approach can significantly improve the measurement of inequality in education by … producing estimates of the Gini Index of Education more realistic and reliable especially when it comes to international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179569
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488142
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369257
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The Short and Long-term Impact of International Migration on Human Capital Formation of the Left Behind
Sur, Pramod Kumar - 2020
. However, we find that households with long-term migrants are more likely to switch from a lower quality of education and … substituting it with a higher quality of education of the left behind household members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828393
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259