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Public-private sector wage differentials and returns to education in Djibouti

Anás Casero, Paloma - 2006

"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...

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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data

Bourguignon, François - 2004

"Bourguignon, Goh, and Kim present an original method to study individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional data. Because panel data of individuals are seldom available in developing countries, it is difficult to study individual earning dynamics and related issues such as the...

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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth

Bravo Ortega, Claudio - 2005

"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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Education Quality and Economic Growth

2007

This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than mere access to education, is what impacts economic...

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Human capital and earnings inequality in Brazil, 1988-98 : / quantile regression evidence

Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - 2003

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Mexico : human capital effects on wages and productivity

López Acevedo, Gladys - 2005

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

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Gender and poverty : / a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes

Lokshin, Michael - 2003

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Why should we care about child labor? The education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2005

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health …

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Child labor, income shocks, and access to credit

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2003

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