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Overeducation in Developing Economies : How Can We Test for It, and What Does It Mean?
Mehta, Aashish; Felipe, Jesus; Quising, Pile; Camingue, … - 2015
unskilled jobs in the Philippines, mild evidence in Mexico, and little evidence in India and Thailand. We show that a job’s mean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192490
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Return international migration and geographical inequality : the case of Egypt
McCormick, Barry; Wahba, Jackline - 2004
This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514468
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TVE-Led Economic Development in Korea and its Implications for Developing Countries
Choi, Heeseon; Ji, Minwoong - 2022
society in this stage. Although the supply of college graduates generally exceeds demand, some fields such as new growth … industries. The government also limited the college entrance rate to cope with an oversupply of college graduates. The government … had to juggle education policy to suppress the demand for college education in general, while expanding college graduates …
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The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
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The dynamics of returns to education in Uganda : national and subnational Trends
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Raggl, Anna - 2014
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Are women important for economic development? : an evidence on women's participation in labor market and their contribution to economic growth in 83 world countries
Lechman, Ewa; Okonowicz, Anna - 2013
A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …
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Die geschlechtsspezifische Einbettung der Ökonomie : empirische Untersuchungen über Entwicklungs- und Transformationsprozesse
Lachenmann, Gudrun (ed.); Dannecker, Petra (contributor) - 2001
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
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Aggregation, the Skill Premium, and the Two-Level Production Function
Leon-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2011
We examine the two-level nested Constant Elasticity of Substitution production function where both capital and labor are disaggregated in two classes. We propose a normalized system estimation method to retrieve estimates of the inter- and intra-class elasticities of substitution and factor...
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