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Wages and Human Capital in Exporting Firms in Morocco

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human capital characteristics, returns to education and experience...

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Do Nations Combine O-Rings with Cobb-Douglas? Evidence from agriculture, equipment production, and the informal sector

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...

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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...

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On the spatial diffusion of knowledge by universities located in small and medium sized towns

Rego, Conceição; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

a higher level of education and R&D. The relationship between the acquisition of knowledge and institutional education … innovation, enterprise spirit and management capacity. Given that higher education institutions, in general, and universities, in … particular, are obviously crucial in the process of knowledge increase, it becomes important to analyse how can these …

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Positive self-image over time

Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper incorporates egocentric comparisons into a human capital accumulation model and studies the evolution of positive self image over time. The paper shows that the process of human capital accumulation together with egocentric comparisons imply that positive self image of a cohort is...

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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...

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Déterminants de la participation au marché du travail et choix occupationnel: une analyse microéconométrique appliquée au cas de l'Algérie

Lassassi, Moundir; Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A review of the literature on the issue of labor market participation and occupational choice, allows us to see that research on this topic turned more on developed countries. In developing countries, including Algeria, the determinants of participation in economic activity and individuals’...

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Growth and Competition in a Model of Human Capital Accumulation and Research

Bianco, Dominique - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between competition and growth in a model of human capital accumulation and research by disentangling the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measure of competition....

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Income tax, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital in a two-sector economy

Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper studies a two-sector economy with investments in human and physical capital and imperfect labor markets. Workers and firms endogenously select the sector they are active in, and choose the amount of their investments. To enter the high-skill sector, workers must pay a fixed cost that...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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