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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …

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Is There a Size-Induced Market Failure in Skills Training?

Vandenberg, Paul - 2017

may face greater challenges in developing human capital. We explore differences between smaller and larger firms in …

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The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country

Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2015

What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...

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Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies

Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019

In developed economies, agglomeration is skill-biased: larger cities are skill-abundant and exhibit higher skilled wage premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons with developed-economy findings, we construct...

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Inferring Networks of Interdependent Labor Skills to Illuminate Urban Economic Structure

Shutters, Shade T.; Waters, Keith - 2020

Cities are among the best examples of complex systems. The adaptive components of a city, such as its people, firms, institutions, and physical structures, form intricate and often non-intuitive interdependencies with one another. These interdependencies can be quantified and represented as...

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The sources of wage growth in a developing country

Marinescu, Ioana; Triyana, Margaret - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 2, pp. 1-43

What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the USA, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 28 %, which is higher than the return to...

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Is there a size-induced market failure in skills training?

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

may face greater challenges in developing human capital. We explore differences between smaller and larger firms in …

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Sharing skills and needs between providers and users of climate information to create climate services : lessons from the Northern Adriatic case study

Giannini, Valentina; Bellucci, Alessio; Torresan, Silvia - 2016

The need to cope with the expected impacts of climate change on socio-ecological systems calls for a closer dialogue between climate scientists and the community of climate information users (e.g. decision makers belonging to public institutions). We describe an interactive process designed to...

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Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor

Christensen, Julie - 2016

We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or...

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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries

Behrman, Jere R. - 2019

Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning … middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of human capital and endowments and simple frameworks for guiding the … children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …

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