I20 - General

• Expansion of Higher Education, Employment and Wages: Evidence from the Russian Transition

  Staff Working Paper 2013-45 Natalia Kyui

  This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regional increases in student intake capacities in Russian universities, a result of educational reforms, provide a plausibly exogenous variation in access to higher education.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics, Labour markets JEL Code(s): I, I2, I20, J, J2, J24

• Contraintes de liquidité et capital humain dans une petite économie ouverte

  Staff Working Paper 2004-13 Florian Pelgrin

  In an overlapping-generations model that represents a small open economy, where agents live two periods, liquidity constraints lead to low economic development when the only accumulable factor is human capital.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): I, I2, I20, O, O4, O40