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Impact of Child Labour on School Attendance and School Attainment: Evidence from Bangladesh

Khanam, Rasheda; Ross, Russell - 2005

. Household permanent income, parental education and supply side correlates of schooling (presence of a primary (grade 1-6) school … Bangladesh. The results of this study further show that the effect of household permanent income, parental education and presence …

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The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians

Chen, Maggie - 2009

We use a Chinese firm-director level panel dataset to examine the matching of heterogeneous firms and politicians. Based on 36,308 detailed biographies, we identify individuals that previously held bureaucratic positions and classify the rank of each position in the Chinese political hierarchy....

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Equity Criteria as Instrument to Ensure Sustainability of Pareto or Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency: A Correlation Hidden by Sources of Confounding as Key for Sorting Out the Global Economic Crisis

Benazzo, Piero - 2010

The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality. The analysis finds efficient situations reached increasing inequality as diminishing in the long term effective demand in a larger measure than counterbalancing increases thanks...

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The General Equilibrium Wage Impact of Trade-Induced Shifts in Industrial Compositions of Employment in Brazilian Cities, 1991-2000

Mardukhi, Jian - 2010

Conventionally, it is presumed that restructuring of industrial composition of employment only modestly affects the average wage. This is because in a partial equilibrium setting such a restructuring affects the calculation of the average wage only through changes in employment shares of...

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The Impact of Peace: Evidence from Nigeria

Hönig, Tillman - 2017

relevance: Education, health, self-employment income and household expenditures. While the empirical literature on the … education by 0.53 years of schooling, a 67% increase in self-employment income and a 19% increase in household expenditures four …

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The impact of women's age at marriage on own and spousal labor market outcomes in India: causation or selection?

Dhamija, Gaurav; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2018

The labor market impacts of women's age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists. The focus of this literature, however, has been the developed world and almost nothing is known about how a delay in marriage affects labor market prospects of women in...

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Una Aplicación de la Descomposición Blinder–Oaxaca junto a regresiones por cuantiles de influencia recentrada al sector formal e informal y sus determinantes

Rodríguez Núñez, Juan Bautista; Guerra Salazar, … - 2019

, the life cycle and the level of family income having an important influence. In relation to family income and age groups … the level of family income increases. Similar results are recorded for the propensities of the informal sector, providing … evidence in favor of low-income people entering the informal labor market as a means of subsistence and an escape valve due to …

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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso

Traoré, Jean Abel - 2012

The main objective of this paper is to highlight the determinants of informal sector activity with a special focus on informal self-employment opposed to informal wage employment. For this purpose we build a theoretical framework to show the important role of education in occupational choice. To...

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Skill-biased Technological Change, E-skills and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Tunisia

Aissaoui, Najeh; Ben Hassen, Lobna - 2015

Although there is a plethora of literature that supports the existence of a technological bias in the US and Europe, exploring such a subject in the developing countries is still relevant and very little processed. This article is part of the perspective that involves examining and bringing...

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AIDS Mortality and its Effect on the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa

Chicoine, Luke - 2012

, these effects are widespread across a significant portion of the population, contributing to substantial loss of income …

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