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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …

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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a … discouraging effect on their intentions in the short-term. These results support the conjecture that entrepreneurship education …

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Chapter 11 Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data

Pritchett, Lant - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 635-695). 2006

The theoretical, conceptual, and practical difficulties with the use of cross-national data on schooling are so severe using aggregate data for any purpose for which individual level data would do should be avoided. There are, however, three questions for which the use of cross-national data on...

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Testing the validity of item non-response as a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills

New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

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The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Entorf, Antonia K.; Dohmen, Thomas - 2025

education on noncognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank's 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

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The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Entorf, Antonia K.; Dohmen, Thomas - 2025

education on non-cognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank’s 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2004

's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …

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