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The impact of class absenteeism on undergraduates’ academic performance: evidence from an elite Economics school in Portugal
Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842595
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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth
Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge … and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does … not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link is the mechanism converting knowledge into economically relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504210
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Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data
Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246607
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The level of human capital in innovative firms located in China. Is foreign capital relevant?
Shu, Li; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
between FDI, Human Capital and Innovation at a corporate level. Based on a set of large and innovative firms (national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725676
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Serial entrepreneurship, learning by doing and self-selection
Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
It remains a question whether serial entrepreneurs typically perform better than their novice counterparts owing to learning by doing e¤ects or mostly because they are a selected sample of higher-than-average ability entrepreneurs. This paper tries to unravel these two effects by exploring a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842587
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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666520
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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666953
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Reorganization of Firms and Labour Market Inequality
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We show how recent technological advances in physical and human capital can lead to the breakdown of occupational barriers, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789077
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Technical Progress and Early Retirement
Ahituv, Avner; Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This Paper claims that technical progress induces early retirement of older workers. It supports this claim both theoretically and empirically. We present a model where part of human capital is technology-specific, so that technical progress erodes some existing human capital. This affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791260
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
unskilled-labor-biased. Increasing basic knowledge causes a growth takeoff, an income-led demand for fewer educated children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791427