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The Impact of Education on the Behaviour of Labor Supply in Cameroon: an Analysis using the Nested Multinomial Logit Model

Nga Ndjobo, Patrick Marie; Abessolo, Yves André - 2013

This article renders an analysis of the impact of education on labour supply behaviour, particularly in terms of … individuals who constitute the labour supply being faced with four alternatives (domestic activities, the informal, the public and … education is at most equivalent to theirs. Therefore, signals sent by job-seekers to employers, requesting access demand to …

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Credit Constraints in Higher Education in a Context of Unobserved Heterogeneity

Villena, Mauricio; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - 2012

This article tests the existence of credit constraints on higher education access by estimating actual marginal returns in the context of unobserved heterogeneity. We estimate higher education returns for those who attend to it and compare them with those of individuals who are at the margin of...

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Agrarian distress and rural non-farm sector employment in India

Abraham, Vinoj - 2011

The rural labour market in India is still virtually, to a large extent, dominated by the agriculture related workers, both cultivators and hired workers consisting of more than 70 percent of the rural workforce even in the current decade. However, there have been signs of a shift from farm to...

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Determinantes sociales y económicos del empleo informal en la República Dominicana en el año 2016

Rodríguez Núñez, Juan Bautista; Guerra Salazar, … - 2017

The research conducted analyzes the determinants of informal employment in the Dominican Republic, using data from the 2016 National Labor Force Survey (ENFT). By applying logistic regression "logit" models, it estimates the likelihood of being informally employed and examines changes in the...

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Развитие трудового потенциала АПК Казахстана: эконометрический анализ

Saginova, Sania; Stukach, Victor; Sultanova, Guzel - 2022

Purpose - to conduct study of current state of labor potential of rural areas, prospects for the development of social and economic aspects of rural areas in successful modernization. Consider theoretical foundations of economic and mathematical modeling of the dynamics of labor potential...

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Economic shocks and skill acquisition: evidence from a national online learning platform at the onset of COVID-19

Ganguli, Ina; Haidar, Jamal; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; … - 2024

demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as telework, likely to be immediately valuable during the pandemic …

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Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2009

Since 1950, U.S. educational attainment has increased substantially. While the median student in 1950 dropped out of high school, the median student today attends some college. In an environment with ability heterogeneity and positive sorting between ability and school tenure, the expansion of...

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Credit Constraints in the Demand for Education: Evidence from Survey Data

Sorokina, Olga V. - 2009

in the demand for college education? Liquidity constraints in education may lead to inefficient skill allocations and …, they appear to reveal important aspects of heterogeneity in the demand for education not captured by the standard measures …

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A Cross-national analysis of the relations between school choice and effectiveness differences between private-independent and public schools

Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, S - 2010

We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of the disparity in school effectiveness between the privately owned, privately funded school sector and the public one in a sample of 25 countries in Europe, America and Asia. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and...

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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