The economic returns to schooling in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Article Abstract:

Results of a study show that wage differences between educational institutions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the 1981-87 period was cut by more than 50%. This marked shrinkage is found to be the result of a significant expansion in the size of the educated Palestinian labor force. The returns to schooling for Israeli Jews being stable, the reduction in returns to schooling for Palestinians supports the idea that the returns to schooling in the territories were influenced by supply and demand forces in a segmented market for skilled labor.

Universities and colleges, Compensation and benefits, Schools, West Bank, Gaza Strip

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The decline in black teenage labor-force participation in the South, 1900-1970: the role of schooling

Article Abstract:

An estimated 86% of 16-to-19-year-old black males in southern states participated in the labor force in 1900, compared to only 34% in 1970. The labor-force participation rate declined by 27 percentage points between 1950 and 1970. Researchers have attributed this post-1950 decline to decreases in the demand for labor resulting from the minimum wage and the use of the mechanical cotton harvester. A better explanation would be that the increase in school enrollment by blacks led to a decrease in labor-force participation.

History, Employment, Labor market, Southern States, African American youth, African American teenagers

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Wages and labor markets before the Civil War

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The growth of real wage before the US Civil War appeared to be slow and stationary. The distribution of wages during the antebellum period was altered by the changes in labor demand and labor supply, which is similar to what happened in the US in 1970. Factor markets that distributed labor from low to high value sites helped the antebellum development in the US. Furthermore, the nominal wage gap between non-farm and farm workers is found to be significant if geographic differences were taken into account

Wages, Wages and salaries, United States history

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