The UAE's labour market policy of Emiratisation is intended to replace expatriates with local workers by imposing restrictions on the employment of expatriate workers in the public sector and enforcing the private sector to employ nationals in certain types of jobs. This policy …
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This thesis is a critical examination of the „new vision‟ strategies that the Libyan government undertook in order to promote the deeper integration of the Libyan economy into the global economy of the Modern Orientalist World-System (MOWS). This process has been taking place si…
This thesis explores two important aspects of growth, namely the roles of financial development and inequality. The recent literature has indicated that both the finance-growth and inequality-growth relationships are complex and not well captured through conventional linear regr…
In a developing oil-based economy like Libya the availability of finance is largely affected by the availability of oil revenues which are subjected to disturbances and shocks. Therefore, the decision to save and invest a certain ratio of the country's aggregate output is, to la…
After an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related …
I combine micro-level data and structural models to study the interaction between trade, innovation, and human capital. In the first chapter, I examine how China's expansion of college education since 1999 affects innovation and exports' skill content. This policy change is inte…
In recent decades, Japan's growth rate gradually declined and now lags behind those of other advanced economies and other Asian nations. Japanese government's plan to revitalize the nation's economy stresses population decline and population aging as factors that undermine natio…
Following the neoclassical model of Robert Solow, several theories have been proposed to explain the fundamental causes of growth and economic development. This dissertation analyzes three of the main hypotheses. Chapter 2 explores the hypothesis that geographic conditions assoc…
This thesis contains three essays related to the measurement and origins of inequality. The first two essays consider the Chicago public schools during the early 20th century. In the first essay, I evaluate the impact of school quality on child outcomes. Then I consider the impa…
Noting that colonial policies worked against the integral development of Nigeria, post-colonial administrations employed different policy initiatives to redress the situation. This case study aimed to measure the effectiveness of secondary school civic education in this regard. …
This dissertation analyzes how early inequalities in health and education affect later educational, health, and social and emotional outcomes. I place particular emphasis on how the unique economic circumstances of the developing world interact with the dynamic and multidimensio…
In the first essay I develop a quantitative framework of firm dynamics where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and government taxation. Informal sector firms do not pay taxes but have no access to external finance. For taxes and financial con…
Through econometric and economic analyses, this dissertation addresses three key issues in the household educational decisions in Malaysia. First, by addressing selectivity bias, it provides new and more accurate information about the private rates of return to education in Mala…
The four chapters in this dissertation explore the factors that affect the livelihoods of rural households in Nigeria with an emphasis on understanding the role of the nonfarm economy. Although most rural households are involved in the farm sector, the nonfarm sector has grown s…
Investment in human capital is associated with higher economic and non-economic gains in the future for the individual, the household, and at the aggregate level for the economy. In my dissertation, I examine three different policy oriented questions that are relevant for improv…
This qualitative historical case study explored the experiences of corporate and non-corporate organizations involved in educational partnerships. There is significant documentation that supports educational partnerships as they relate to the benefits for students. These benefic…
Preparing general high school graduates for the job market in Saudi Arabia has been around since 1990. In 1997 this problem became a policy issue especially with the growing number of unemployed Saudis. Thus, different groups in Saudi society—including educators, employers, and …
Scope and method of study. With regard to the undergoing debate on the causes of differences in per capita income between countries, this study shows that some of the unexplained sources of productivity increases and hence economic growth, can be accounted for by the inclusion o…
What causes different income levels and development paths among countries? This dissertation investigates the role of human capital in the process of development. In particular, this dissertation focuses on how human capital is formed, i.e. how altruistic parents make human capi…