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Four Essays On Education Growth And Labour Economics
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Author : Miguel Angelo Portela
language : en
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Four Essays On Education Growth And Labour Economics written by Miguel Angelo Portela and has been published by Rozenberg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Essays In Economic Theory Growth And Labour Markets
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Author : George Bitros
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Essays In Economic Theory Growth And Labour Markets written by George Bitros and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and endowment changes.
Four Essays In Economics Of Education
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Author : Mirjam Strupler Leiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
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Four Essays On Labour Economics
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Author : Weiwei Ren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Four Essays On Labour Economics written by Weiwei Ren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
The thesis consists of four self-contained essays. Essay I, This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in rural China. The analyses are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature, and the decomposition developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). It shows that the payoff to correctly matched education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are under qualified in their occupation is greater for females than for males. Both of these factors are linked to the higher payoff to schooling for females than for males. Over educated females, however, are advantaged compared with their male counterparts, though this has little effect on the differential in the payoff to schooling between males and females. These findings are interpreted using the explanations offered for the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in the growing literature on earnings determination in China. Essay II, Studies of the return to education in urban China have reported that this has increased over time, and that females typically have a higher return than males. In this paper we adopt a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature, and the decomposition developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008), to investigate the reasons for these findings. The finding by Chen and Hamori (2009), from analysis of data for 2004 and 2006, of the return to schooling for males exceeding that for females, is also examined using this decomposition. Essay III, This paper uses data from the 1993 wave of the China Health and Nutrition Survey to explore the determinants of fertility in rural China. Using an ordered logit model, our analysis shows that measures of family planning including fines for above the quota children, subsidies for "one child" families, and the Hukou status of the "one child" have affected fertility. However, the influences of these factors differ among women with different household income. Our results show that, 15 years after the one child policy was enacted in 1979, family planning was not the unique factor underlying the fertility decline in China. Socio-economic factors such as education, marriage age and occupations of women have also affected fertility in rural China. Essay IV, Using the 1991-2009 waves of China Health and Nutrition Survey, we explore whether there is any evidence of gender gap in children health outcomes in rural China and then its determinants in different size of families, which is influenced by family planning policy to a very great extent in China. We find that the existence of gender gap in child health only in non-one-child households but not in one-child households. We further observe that sibling rivalry does not affect boys' health but worsens girls' health in non-one-child households. Our findings also show that the increase of household income and father s education can reduce the gender gap in child health to some extent. The degree of gender bias in child health is computed based on Oaxaca and Blinder decomposition model.
Four Essays In Labour Economics
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Author : Michael F. Maier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Four Essays In Labour Economics written by Michael F. Maier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Zusammenfassung: This dissertation includes four studies in the field of empirical labour economics with a focus on risk in labour markets. In Chapter 1 the effect of an employment subsidy programme on early apprenticeship dropout is evaluated. The programme can be considered a preventive intervention to avoid unsuccessful labour market careers. Even though the subsidy provides strong incentives to discourage dropout, the programme does not significantly lower dropout from apprenticeship. Chapter 2 presents an analysis on the influence of individual risk attitudes on job mobility and the consequences for wage growth in the early career. The analysis is based on the proposition that job change is a risky move, since it involves substantial costs, whereas future benefits cannot be entirely foreseen. Accordingly, the results show that individuals with higher degree of risk aversion change jobs less frequently during their early career. Moreover, since risk-averse individuals demand more compensation for the risk associated with changing jobs, the observed wage increases are on average higher for risk-averse than for more risk-tolerant individuals. Chapter 3 investigates the role of skill mismatch for earnings variation among individuals with the same education. The analysis uses a general measure of skill mismatch which represents labour market frictions on a broad scale. The results show that skill mismatch is an important factor for wage inequality within education groups. Overeducation as a specific measure for skill mismatch among university graduates contributes to wage inequality due to differences in the mean and dispersion of wages between matched and mismatched workers. Chapter 4 examines whether occupational earnings risks are compensated in a lifetime perspective. The results show, that only the permanent component of earnings risk is compensated by higher wages while transitory risks are associated with a wage penalty. The consideration of heterogeneous risk attitudes and occupational mobility provides a nuanced view on the risk compensation in wages: Firstly, compensation for earnings risk is considerably higher for less risk averse workers. Secondly, the compensating wage differential is lower after an occupational change suggesting a trade-off between occupational mobility and compensation for earnings risk
Essays In Economic Development
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Author : Salma Ahmed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
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This thesis presents four self-contained essays that explore issues that are crucial in improving human well-being in a developing country: improving health, minimising child labour and reducing gender inequality. The analysis is focused on Bangladesh where the prevalence of child labour and gender differences in several domains is still widespread. The first essay aims to examine the gender wage gap along the entire wage distribution into an endowment effect and a discrimination effect, taking into account possible selection into full-time employment. Applying a new decomposition approach to the Bangladesh Labour Force Survey (LFS) datasets of 1999 and 2005, we find that women are paid less than men everywhere on the wage distribution and the gap is higher at the lower end of the distribution. Discrimination against women is the primary determinant of the wage gap. We also find that this gap has widened between 1999 and 2005. The second essay examines whether gender differences in tertiary enrolment rates can be explained by wage premiums in returns from secondary to tertiary education levels. Using LFS data, we find that wage premiums do not have any significant effect on the gender gap in tertiary enrolment rates. We also note that wage premiums in returns from secondary to tertiary education significantly influence tertiary enrolment rates for males but not for females, once additional variables are added. We offer evidence that part of the explanation for low female enrolment in tertiary education is attributable to demographic factors. The third essay investigates whether there is any trade-off between child labour hours and schooling. By drawing on the 2002 dataset of the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey (NCLS), we find that working hours adversely affect child schooling from the very first hour of work. However, the marginal impact of child labour hours weakens when working hours increase; yet, working hours always negatively affect schooling when we use a non-parametric approach. We find that parents do not have identical preferences towards schooling decisions concerning boys and girls. Both mother and father show a significant preference for educating a female child. The same incentive effect is not found for a male child. These conclusions persist, even after allowing for sample selection in child labour. The fourth essay tests the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using NCLS data, we find that child labour is positively and significantly associated with the probability of being injured or becoming ill, once the endogenous relationship between these factors is accounted for. These findings remain robust when we consider child labour hours and restrict our analysis to rural areas. Moreover, the intensity of injury or illness is significantly higher in construction and manufacturing than in other sectors.
Essays In Labour Economics And Economics Of Education
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Author : Szilvia Hámori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Essays On The Economics Of Education And Labour
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Author : Greta Morando
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
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Education Matters
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Author : Alan B. Krueger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Education Matters written by Alan B. Krueger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
A summary of economic research on education conducted by Krueger in the 1990s. The papers are divided into four major sections: estimating the payoff of completing more education; estimating the payoff of school quality; issues related to race and education; and changes in educational payoff over time, including technological change. A final two essays consider education and economic growth, with a focus on Sweden, and evaluate whether American schools are "broken." Krueger (economics and public affairs, Princeton U.) is also author of Education matters and served as the chief economist of the U.S. Labor Department of in 1994 and 1995. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Growth Unemployment Distribution And Government
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Author : V. Borooah
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1996-08-09
Growth Unemployment Distribution And Government written by V. Borooah and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-09 with Business & Economics categories.
The purpose of this book is to set out in a comprehensive, but succinct manner, the key points surrounding four economic issues that generate, today, much discussion and debate. These are the issues of growth, unemployment, distribution and government. It is aimed at an audience that is sufficiently interested in economic issues to read a book that sets out these issues clearly, comprehensively and above all, seriously. This has implications for both the style and the content of the book. Clarity requires that the arguments be presented coherently, without resort to jargon. Comprehensiveness requires a wide perspective embracing theoretical, empirical and policy matters. Lastly, seriousness requires that the most up-to-date thinking on economic matters is presented in digestible form, but without violence to the integrity of the original arguments. Achieving this trinity of objectives has been the primary aim of this book.