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plough in Northern Europe was an important cause of economic development. White argued that it was impossible to take proper …
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were selected from a population of 25,122 members of the Nigeria union of tailors in Lagos, Oyo and Osun state using …
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This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...
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, institution, innovation, gender, ecology and development. Interconnections between the schools also developed from an early stage …: contradiction, heterogeneous agents, and uneven development. These broad concepts are important for comprehending the social …
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Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key … considerations in a country's development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction …
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We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of...
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In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...
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We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or...
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532393