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Does the Jack of All Trades Hold the Winning Hand?: Comparing the Role of Specialized Versus General Skills in the Returns to an Agricultural Degree
Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kimle, Kevin; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
from curriculum innovations focused on developing more generalized skills. …  This paper examines the roles of specialized versus general skills in explaining variation in the returns to an …
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Valuable experience : how internships affect university graduates' income
Bolli, Thomas; Caves, Katherine; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther - 2019
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address … income. In contrast to the literature on internships we find that the effect mainly works by increasing human capital rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058403
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Entrepreneurial Skills and Wage Employment
Kucel, Aleksander - 2016
Promotion of entrepreneurial skills among the population is often considered as an adequate policy to enhance job … creation and economic growth. However, neither the definition of entrepreneurial skills, nor the costs and benefits of such a … policy are clear. Our aim is to check whether the benefits of entrepreneurial skills extent beyond self-employment. We use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995294
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The Agricultural Wage Gap : Evidence from Brazilian Micro-Data
Alvarez, Jorge - 2018
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors. Using Brazilian household surveys and administrative panel data, I use information on workers who switch sectors to decompose this gap. I find that most of the gap is explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934216
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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519100
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Selection and absolute advantage in farming and entrepreneurship
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019
Output per worker is lower in poor countries than in rich countries, and relatively more so in the agricultural sector. Sorting of heterogeneous workers can contribute to explain this fact if comparative and absolute advantage are aligned in agriculture, implying that average productivity in...
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Effects on Wage and Employment after Implementation of Social Security Norms in the Agricultural Labour Market
Kundu, Amit - 2009
Government of India wants to implement 'Conditions of Work and Livelihood Promotion Bill' for the agricultural workers who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214265
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If you are so smart, why arent́ you an entrepreneur? : returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. -- (Non …-)cognitive abilities ; intelligence, earnings ; entrepreneur(ship) ; wage employment ; income differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796310
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376647
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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021
generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325026