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The impact of education on household income in rural Vietnam
Hung Van Vu - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-9
was found to increase household income, it increases income inequality in rural Vietnam. Our research findings suggest … that improving the access of poor households to better education is expected to increase their income and reduce inequality …
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Analysis of factors influencing Czech SMEs after EU accession
Šebestová, Jarmila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The main goal of this paper is to present current research findings in three fields - business environment as a source of innovations, education needs and dynamics of SMEs units. The conclusion is made as some recommendations and useful strategies to support this very important part of national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835794
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Ties That Do Not Bind (Directly): The Education-Terrorism Nexus Revisited
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2010
This contribution offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the effects of education on terrorism for 118 countries for the period 1984 to 2007. We find that education and terrorism are not directly linked, so that education neither fosters nor retards terrorism on its own. Rather, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780829
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Mothers' non-farm entrepreneurship and child secondary education in rural Ghana
Janssens, Charlotte; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Maertens, Miet - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110443
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Opportunity equality and development : rural income mobility and city size in China
Chen, Binkai; Liu, Dan; Lu, Ming - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 45 (2022) 11, pp. 3602-3624
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468548
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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality
Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses … these data by population andover time, we hope to address questions that are at the coreof current debates about inequality … in the United States:How great is inequality? Does income inequality exaggerate,or reflect, inequality in material and …
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A case for taxing education
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - 2005
We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261166
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Education and inequality in Greece
Tsakloglou, Panos; Cholezas, Ioannis - 2005
inequality in Greece is strong. Inequities are evident at all levels of the education system; especially as regards access to the … income and influences the probability of poverty. Nevertheless, so far, several links between education and inequality have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267463
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Determinants of inter-country internet diffusion rates
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Leiter, Daniel B. - 2008
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268626
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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P.; Redmond, Cathy - 2011
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address this deficit by analysing the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278508