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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990

Berman, Eli; Somanathan, Rohini; Tan, Hong W. - 2012

Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low … income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of … skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and …

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The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey S.; Leonard, Kenneth Lynch - 2012

and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and …

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Are There Skills Payoffs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? : Empirical Evidence Using STEP Data

Monroy-Taborda, Sebastian; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2016

Most research on the economic payoffs of skills has used individuals' level of schooling attained -- typically years or level of education or training received—as a key proxy for skills. Such research has consistently found that individual returns to schooling are positive and that returns...

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Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data

Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; Tognatta, Namrata; … - 2016

Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...

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Commercialization and Mission Drift : Evidence from a Large Chinese Microfinance Institution

Cull, Robert J.; Guo, Pei; Jia, Xiangping; Ma, Tao - 2016

Front-line loan officers of microfinance institutions are important in acquiring information on potential borrowers and selecting them in accordance with the microfinance institution's mission. This study uses a unique data set on loan officers and their loan portfolios from China's largest...

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Exports and Job Training

Bastos, Paulo; Proenca, Rafael; Silva, Joana - 2016

This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker-firm data for Brazilian manufacturing, linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. The analysis uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to...

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Skill Use, Skill Deficits, and Firm Performance in Formal Sector Enterprises : Evidence from the Tanzania Enterprise Skills Survey, 2015

Bashir, Sajitha; Tan, Hong W.; Tanaka, Nobuyuki - 2016

Inadequacies in Tanzania's education and training systems compromise the quality of workforce skills, giving rise to skill shortages, and constraining the operations and growth of formal sector firms in the country. This study addressed these concerns using data from a unique Enterprise Skills...

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Opportunity versus Necessity : Understanding the Heterogeneity of Female Micro-Entrepreneurs

Calderon, Gabriela; Iacovone, Leonardo; Juarez, Laura - 2016

Entrepreneurs that voluntarily choose to start a business because they are able to identify a good business opportunity and act on it -- opportunity entrepreneurs -- might be different along various dimensions from those who are forced to become entrepreneurs because of lack of other...

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The Value of Reference Letters

Abel, Martin; Burger, Rulof; Piraino, Patrizio - 2017

This paper shows that reference letters from former employers alleviate information asymmetries about workers' skills and improve both match quality and equity in the labor market. A resume audit study finds that using a reference letter in the application increases callbacks by more than 60...

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The Effect of Height on Earnings : Is Stature Just a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills?

Alderman, Harold; Bossavie, Laurent; Giles, John; Mete, Cem - 2017

This study investigates the degree to which the association of height and earnings in Pakistan is independent of other cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher cognitive ability. Thus, there is debate concerning the...

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