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The Role of Education in Economic Growth through the Sectoral Reallocation of Labor
Lee, Soohyung - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
aspect of a country's development. Consider China as an example. In China, around 70% of the labor force worked in the … agricultural sector in 1980, whereas only 47% remained in the agricultural sector in 2000. Over the same period of time, China … household panel dataset--the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)--to measure the extent to which educational attainment …
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Education's role in China's structural transformation
Malin, Martin Benjamin - In: Journal of development economics 101 (2013), pp. 148-166
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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report
Tanner, Michael - 2022
be the world’s fifth largest, behind only the United States as a whole, China, Japan, and Germany. The state’s real gross …
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Returns to Education and Rural Migrant Wage Differentials in China : IV Quantile Treatment Effects
Messinis, George - 2014
China. It utilises a nationally representative data set, recent matching techniques, and IV estimation methods to evaluate …
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by …
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Value of Bilingual Education : Effect of Bilingual School Designation on Housing Price
Koo, Kang Mo - 2019
We examine the impact of bilingual school designation on the house price by analyzing a natural experiment of school conversion from a monolingual school to bilingual school in Melbourne. We find that the house price within the pertinent school catchment area responds positively by 8.4%-9.1% and...
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A Catastrophe Foretold : Economic Reform, Crisis, Recovery and Employment in Argentina
Maletta, Hector E. - 2007
The economic crisis of 2001-2002 in Argentina caused a large increase in unemployment. Policy responses have been imperfect. This paper discusses the roots and character of the crisis, the policies implemented to address the resulting social situation, and the quality of early warning indicators...
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How Much Work is Too Much? Effects of Child Work Hours on Schooling - The Case of Egypt
Assaad, Ragui A.; Levison, Deborah; Dang, Hai-Anh - 2013
How much work is ‘‘too much’’ for children aged 10-14 in Egypt? Our narrow focus here is on ‘‘work that does not interfere with school attendance.’’ For girls, work includes time spent in household chores and subsistence activities. We estimate simultaneous hours of work and...
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Prices, Wages, and Prospects for 'Profit Inflation' in England, Brabant, and Spain, 1501 - 1670: A Comparative Analysis
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002
This paper re-examines Earl Hamilton's famous 1929 thesis on 'Profit Inflation' and the 'birth of modern industrial capitalism': namely, that the inflationary forces of the Price Revolution era produced a widening gap between prices and wages, thus providing industrial entrepreneurs with...
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La agricultura en España y en la OCDE, 1900-2000
Guisan, M. Carmen; Exposito, P - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 1 (2001) 2, pp. 97-120
Presentamos datos comparativos de la evolucion de la renta, los precios y el empleo agrario y no agrario en España, en la UE, USA, Japon y en otros paises de la OCDE durante el periodo 1900-2000. Realizamos un analisis de las causas y consecuencias de la importante revolucion tecnologica y...
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