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On the human capital of Inca Indios before and after the Spanish conquest: Was there a "pre-colonial legacy"?

Juif, Dácil-Tania; Baten, Joerg - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2012

Not only the colonial period, but also the pre-colonial times might have influenced later development patterns. In this study we assess a potential pre-colonial legacy hypothesis for the case of the Andean region. In order to analyze the hypothesis, we study the human capital of Inca Indios,...

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Education and Job market signalling: How robust is the nexus?

Giannini, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 1999

In this paper the Signalling approach to the explanation of wage differentials is analysed in a critical way. Departing from the classic Spence's model, the article shows how the introduction of inequalities in accessing to education leads to separating equilibria characterised by redistributive...

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The Human Capital Dimensions of Sustainable Investment: What Investment Analysts Need to Know

Kochan, Thomas; Appelbaum, Eileen; Leana, Carrie; … - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

This paper identifies a number of questions that need to be answered if the growing interest in building investment portfolios of firms that follow socially and environmentally sustainable practices is to be successful in transforming the financial institutions and analysts from a liability to...

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Life expectancy, heavy work and return to education ; lessons for the social security reform

Garrec, Gilles Le; Lhuissier, Stéphane - Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Sciences … - 2011

In most industrial countries, while the calculation of pension bene?ts is progressive, public pension systems redistribute weakly from high to low- income earners. They are close to actuarial fairness. This statement results from the following speci?city: less paid jobs are also heavier and...

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Lifestyles of the rich and polygynous in Cote d’Ivoire

Gould, Eric D.; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 404-407

This paper investigates whether the sources of income, not just the levels, determine whether an individual is monogamous. Our results support the idea that polygyny stunts development by allowing wealthy men to acquire wives rather than investing in child quality.

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Structural Adjustment Intensity, Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa

Onyeiwu, Steve; Iorgulescu, Raluca; Polimeni, John M. - In: Journal of Developing Societies 25 (2009) 1, pp. 27-55

Nigeria has implemented structural adjustment policies for the past twenty years, with the intensity of reforms increasing each year. However, there is an ongoing debate as to whether strong adjustment is more effective than weak reforms in alleviating poverty in African economies. In this...

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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses?Â The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.Â Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a...

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Human capital inequality and income inequality: testing for causality

Chani, Muhammad; Jan, Sajjad; Pervaiz, Zahid; … - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 1, pp. 149-156

This study investigates the causal relationship between human capital inequality and income inequality in case of … capital inequality and income inequality. The results indicate that there is positive relationship between the two types of … inequalities in the long run. The estimates of causality test indicate that income inequality causes the human capital inequality …

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The Kuznets curve of human capital inequality: 1870–2010

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 3, pp. 283-301

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling …. Within countries, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape curve for human capital inequality over time, namely a Kuznets … curve for human capital. At the global level, the world inequality in human capital has followed a similar trajectory, first …

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Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children, 1972–2007

Kornrich, Sabino; Furstenberg, Frank - In: Demography 50 (2013) 1, pp. 1-23

Survey to examine how spending changed from the early 1970s to the late 2000s, focusing particularly on inequality in … parental investment in children. Parental spending increased, as did inequality of investment. We also investigate shifts in …

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