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The Prospects of the Baby Boomers: Methodological Challenges in Projecting the Lives of an Aging Cohort

Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

In most industrialized countries, the work and family patterns of the baby boomers characterized by more heterogeneous working careers and less stable family lives setthem apart from preceding cohorts. Thus, it is of crucial importance to understand how these different work and family lives are...

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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...

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The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...

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Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....

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Determinants of Economic Growth and the Role of Human Capital in New Growth Models [in Turkish]

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005

This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...

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The role of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic growth

Andrews, Michael Jeffrey (ed.); Chatterji, Aaron (ed.); … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …

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Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship

Botelho, Tristan L.; Fehder, Daniel; Hochberg, Yael V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent … of new firm entry, but rather by a small subset of high-growth startups that are primarily categorized as innovation …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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