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作者：Liu, PW; Zhang, JS; Chong, SC
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：This paper attempts to provide the first set of evidence on the intra- and inter-occupational earnings differentials between immigrants and the native by studying Hong Kong 1996 census data. We found that the intra-occupational earnings differential is slightly more important than the inter-occupational earnings differential. Comparing with the literature on gender wage differentials, immigrants seem to face more barriers to entry into good occupations than females in a relative sense. Moreove...
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作者：Lipsey, RE; Sjöholm, F
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper examines whether the higher wages paid by foreign-owned manufacturing plants than by domestically owned plants, typical of most countries, represents a higher price for labor. That is, does it reflect a higher price for workers of a given quality, as represented by the level of education? We then ask whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor given the characteristics of the plants. Foreign-owned firms are found to pay a higher price for labor of a given educational l...
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作者：Kochar, A
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This paper examines the effect of adult health on the savings and portfolio decisions of rural Pakistani households. It also tests whether such effects result because ill-health affects income and the rates of return on specific assets. By so doing, it provides evidence on the sensitivity of savings to income changes and to interest rates. I find that expectations of future ill-health increase overall savings, but reduce investments in productive assets thereby forging a link between health an...
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作者：Jolliffe, D
作者单位：United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Most of the human capital literature pertaining to developing countries focuses on the returns to education in either farm work or wage work; few studies examine how education affects the allocation of time between these activities. This paper estimates the returns to education in farm and off-farm work, and consequently the role of education in determining the allocation of labor. The results from this study show that off-farm work has a much higher return to education than does farm work and...
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作者：Ros, J
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
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作者：Klimenko, MM
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：This paper emphasizes the experimental nature of industrial targeting policies under uncertainty in a small open economy. A government promotes entry of new firms in selected industries and updates its beliefs about the country's comparative advantage in a Bayesian way. This selective targeting policy is analyzed in the framework of a special type of statistical decision problem known as the multi-armed bandit. The paper analyzes how the costs and benefits of learning about a country's compara...
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作者：Mattoo, A; Olarreaga, M; Saggi, K
作者单位：The World Bank; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Southern Methodist University
摘要：Foreign direct investment (FDI) can take place either through the direct entry of foreign firms or the acquisition of existing domestic firms. The preferences of a foreign firm and a welfare-maximizing host country government over these two modes of FDI are examined in the presence of costly technology transfer. The trade-off between technology transfer and market competition emerges as a key determinant of preferences. The clash between the foreign firm's equilibrium choice and the local gove...
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作者：Cropper, ML; Haile, M; Lampietti, J; Poulos, C; Whittington, D
作者单位：The World Bank; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：This study measures the monetary value households place on preventing malaria in Tigray, Ethiopia. We estimate a household demand function for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of preventing malaria as the household's maximum willingness to pay to provide vaccines for all family members. This is contrasted with the traditional costs of illness (medical costs and lost productivity). Our results indicate that the value of preventing malaria with vaccines is about US$36 per hou...
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作者：Kosempel, S
作者单位：University of Guelph
摘要：This paper presents a synthesized theory of development and long run growth. The theory that is presented combines two engines of growth which have been emphasized in the literature: technological progress and human capital accumulation. In the model, the growth rate of per capita output depends in part on the interaction between these two types of economic forces. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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作者：Duflo, E
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper studies the medium run consequences of an increase in the rate of accumulation of human capital in a developing country. From 1974 to 1978, the Indonesian government built over 61,000 primary schools. The school construction program led to an increase in education among individuals who were young enough to attend primary school after 1974, but not among the older cohorts. 2SLS estimates suggest that an increase of 10 percentage points in the proportion of primary school graduates in...
