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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258801
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259525
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079319
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260182
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787146
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991290
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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Education, Signaling, and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Economy
Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Many empirical works suggest that education has a positive effect on earnings not only because it raises human capital but also because it functions as a signal when employers have incomplete information on employees' skills. The signaling role could have important consequences on the dynamics...
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