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education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …
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education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. The findings …
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Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Climate change is particularly important issue in Madagascar, a poor island nation that is frequently affected by droughts, floods and cyclones. We examine the impact of weather events on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model using...
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We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model, using a panel survey conducted in 2004 and 2011 in Madagascar − a poor island nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather...
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probability of employment increases by 0.15. It concludes that schooling is paramount in decreasing rural unemployment in Ethiopia … reducing unemployment. Scholars debate whether education reduces rural unemployment. Some scholars argue that education is a … powerful weapon to reduce rural unemployment. Others encounter that education does not necessarily decrease rural unemployment …
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composition and national industry employment growth rates. The results demonstrate that child schooling is pro-cyclical in Turkey …, we find asymmetric effects on child schooling based on skill composition of economic growth. Higher unemployment among … unskilled workers increases schooling, whereas higher unemployment among skilled workers decreases schooling. …
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on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …
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