An exploration of individual-level wage effects of foreign aid in developing countries

Crowding out Effect of Foreign Aid in Selected Developing Countries: Panel Data Evidence

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

An Impact of Globalization on Gender Wage Inequality: A case Study of Selected Developing Countries

Globalization may have different impacts on the gender wage gap depending on the specialization and trade pattern as well as the socio-economic situation. The main purpose of this paper is to examine an impact of globalization on gender wage inequality. Specifically, the hypothesis is that globalization reduces gender wage gap. For this, we have employed a panel technique for 21 selected develo...

Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: An Examination of New Economic Geography Theory

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the manufacturing industry wage among selected developing countries based on new economic geography theory. More specifically, we use a panel data model to study the spatial structure of wages in 136 countries for the period 1998-2007. The results indicate that this theory provides a good description of the spatial structure of w...

Throwing Good Money After Bad? The Effects of Foreign Aid on Income Inequality in Developing Countries

This paper examines the effect of official development aid (ODA) on income inequality in developing countries. Using data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, we use a country fixed-effects approach to address endogeneity issues. We find no significant effect of ODA per capita on inequality in developing countries. We therefore conclude that, consistent with previous research in ...