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Global wage inequality and the international flow of migrants

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - 2010

underlying the Mincer specification of wages that is used widely to estimate the relationship between schooling and wages are … described. A method for identifying skill prices and for testing the Mincer model, using wages and the human capital attributes …

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Public-private employment choice, wage differentials and gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 1999

administration wages are at parity or lower than private sector wages in particular at the university level. State Economic … Enterprise wages for men are higher than private sector wages except at the university level. Opposite results are obtained for … women: their wages are at par or higher in public administration than in the private sector. Further, while men's and women …

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Wage premia for education and location, by gender and race in South Africa

Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano M. - 1998

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...

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Schooling returns for wage earners in Burkina Faso : evidence from the 1994 and 1998 national surveys

Kazianga, Harounan - 2004

This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of...

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The determinants of displaced workers’ wages : sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2022

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Evidence of returns to schooling in Africa from household surveys : monitoring and restructuring the market for education

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Wage-differentials by education of men and women are examined from African household surveys to suggest private wage returns to schooling. It is commonly asserted that returns are highest at primary school levels and decrease at secondary and postsecondary levels, whereas private returns in six...

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Changes in returns to education in India, 1983-1994 : by gender, age-cohort and location

Duraisamy, Palanigounder - 2000

There is hardly any estimate of the returns to schooling in India based on a national level representative data for the recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by rural-urban) for the most recent period 1993/4, and...

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The fertility of the Irish in America in 1910

Guinnane, Timothy; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2002

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church...

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The impact of economic and sociocultural factors on the distribution of income for some developed countries

Kot, Stanisław Maciej - 1992

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Inside the "black Box" of Project STAR : estimation of peer effects using experimental data

Boozer, Michael A.; Cacciola, Stephen E. - 2001

The credible identification of endogenous peer group effects - i.e. social multiplier or feedback effects - has long eluded social scientists. We argue that such effects are most credibly identified by a randomly assigned social program which operates at differing intensities within and between...

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