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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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Democracy, cognitive skill, and top 1% income share in the 21st century

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

conspicuously in the 21st century. However, there is insufficient knowledge on how political factors and types of human capital …

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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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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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Emergence of a professional sports league and human capital formation for sports: The Japanese Professional Football League.

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences-in-differences method. The following main findings were obtained. (1)...

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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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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.

Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as...

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Human Capital Accumulation through Interaction between a Married Couple: Comparison between a Housewife and a Working Wife

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

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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...

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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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