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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2005
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441511
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Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Education Revisited
Asadullah, M. Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2006
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442512
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The returns to education : microeconomics
Harmon, Colm; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Walker, Ian - 2003
In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate of return to that private investment. While the literature is replete with studies that estimate the rate of return using regression methods where the estimated return is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475659
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Earnings Disparities in the Czech Republic: Evidence of the Past Decade and Cross-National Comparison
Vecernik, Jiri - 2001
Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477159
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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand
Liu, Amy - 2005
This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451767
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Praag, C.M. van; Parker, S.C. - 2004
To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460015
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Markteintritt deutscher KMU in Japan ? eine theoretische und empirische Analyse anhand der Medizintechnikindustrie
Toto, Serkan - 2009
ger?t Japan im Zuge der Hinwendung deutscher Firmen nach China in der Wahrnehmung der ?ffentlichkeit zunehmend in den …??ten Absatzmarktes der Welt. Die Kernfrage dieser Untersuchung lautet: Welche Methoden des Markteintritts in Japan existieren f?r diese … von KMU besonderer Bezug genommen. Im Rahmen einer ausf?hrlichen Analyse m?glicher Markteintrittsoptionen in Japan wird im …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485594
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Trends in wage inequality : the role of trade, technical change and labor market institutions
Tchipev, Anton - 2007
Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die Rolle von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen, Internationaler Handel und technischer Fortschritt als Bestimmungsfaktoren der Lohnungleichheit. Sie besteht aus zwei allgemeinen Kapiteln (2 und 4) und drei spezifischen (3, 5 and 6), die den Grossteil des Beitrags...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471896
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Implications of lifting the ban on the export of Alaskan crude oil
2008
Japanese market and the US West Coast market. Japan is the principal potential export market for Alaskan crude oil. Exports to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436598
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Navy mobility fuels forecasting system report: World petroleum trade forecasts for the year 2000
Das, S. - 2008
coming from Japan, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Several regions, the Far East, Japan, Latin American, and Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436664