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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach

Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress

Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …

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An analysis of the Graduate Labour Market in Finland: the impact of Spatial Agglomeration and Skill-Job Mismatches

Consoli, Davide; Vona, Francesco; Saarivirta, Toni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The recent history of Finland has been shaped by the rollercoaster of the 1990s when the economy went from deep recession to becoming among the most innovative and competitive within merely a decade. Economic recovery driven by the surge of ICT-related industries with the active support of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560112

Employment and sustainable development: education, training and R&D in the regulation of the labour market

Kovács, Ilona; Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

consequently a break with the prevailing model of society and learning and knowledge sharing within modern societies. In the first …, Vocational Training and – desirably – Innovation in that regulation process . We stress that sustainable development imply an …

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Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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Economic growth In the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...

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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Fertility

Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We present a general equilibrium dynamic model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization but households face the...

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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White discrimination in provision of black education: plantations and towns

Canaday, Neil; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We present a model of public provision of education for blacks in two discriminatory regimes, white plantation controlled, and white town controlled. We show that the ability to migrate to a non-discriminating district constrains the ability of both types of whites to discriminate. The model...

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