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School access, resources, and learning outcomes: Evidence from a non-formal school program in Bangladesh

Dang, Hai-Anh; Sarr, Leopold; Asadullah, Niaz - 2011

This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention - The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project - in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a single teacher and a classroom. The operating...

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Labour market institutions and unemployment: Does finance matter?

Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - 2011

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...

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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Migration, transfers and child labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...

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(Re)Distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performances across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution has as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given...

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Inequality and economic growth: The empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data

Knowles, Stephen - 2001

All of the recent empirical work on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth has used inequality data that are not consistently measured. This paper argues that this is inappropriate and shows that the significant negative correlation often found between income inequality...

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Infrastructure and regional development in the People's Republic of China

Zhao, Zhijun; Kanamori, Toshiki - 2007

This paper investigates the relationship between infrastructure and rural economic development. It begins by reviewing the progress of Chinese economic and rural reform and analyzes the challenges faced by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Then, based on the review, an...

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Managing capital flows: The case of the Philippines

Yap, Josef - 2008

During the past five years or so, most East Asian economies including the Philippines experienced a rising level of foreign exchange reserves and rapidly appreciating currencies both in nominal and real terms. One cause has been the resurgence of capital flows, which makes the issue of how to...

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Dynamics of development in rural communities

Barrios, Erniel B. - 2007

This paper explores the complex process of rural development at the community level in the Philippines. From the complementation among the essential elements of rural development (social infrastructure, physical infrastructure, and financial services), linkages are traced towards the attainment...

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Three Essays on Estimation and Dynamic Modelling of Multivariate Market Risks using High Frequency Financial Data

Voev, Valeri - 2008

This dissertation consists of three stand-alone research papers, all of which treat the topic of estimation and dynamic … categories - estimation (Chapter 1 and 2) and dynamic modelling (Chapter 3), and are intentionally arranged in a particular … assets in the presence of a host of market microstructure frictions. An extension to this problem, where both the estimation …

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