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slave states. -- slavery ; development ; inequality ; institutions ; education …
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
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In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
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We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different …
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randomizes business training at the market level, and then within markets to selected businesses. Three years after training, the … customers and sales volumes. This market growth appears to come from enhanced customer service and new product introduction …
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This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … social security registration criterion is found to be a better measure of informality in the Turkish labor market given its …
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, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and … distinct labor market states and identifying the effects of certain individual and job characteristics on variant mobility … market states of formal-salaried, informal-salaried, formal self-employed, informal self-employed, unemployed and inactive …
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The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed … of the Turkish labor market as previously thought. -- formal/informal employment ; labor market dynamics ; panel data …
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