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The Effect of Skill Level on the Timing of Childbearing and Number of Children
Alders, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and...
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Human Capital and Retirement
Alders, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
knowledge of technologies becomesobsolete. After a shock in technology, the worker depreciates on hishuman capital. The lower …
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Employment effects of different innovation activities microecomometric evidence
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft : Hintergrundbericht zur Innovationserhebung 2001
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert Helmut; Peters, Bettina; … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …
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