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Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Search and the City

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...

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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can...

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Comparative Advantage, Relative Wages, and the Accumulation of Human Capital

Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

I apply Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage to a theory of factor substitutability in a model with a continuum of worker and job types. Highly skilled workers have a comparative advantage in complex jobs. The model satisfies the distance‐dependent elasticity of substitution (DIDES)...

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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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