Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

Kaldor's Laws, regarding relationships between output, employment and productivity in manufacturing are estimated with Kreis-data of the Bundesländer Hessen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland between 1980-92 by estimation methods considering the presence of spatial...

Kaldors Hypothesen zum (regionalen) wirtschaftlichen Wachstum, die Beziehungen zwischen Output, Beschäftigung und Produktivität im sekundären Sektor herstellen, werden in modifizierter Form auf den tertiären Sektor (Dienstleistungen) übertragen und anhand von Kreisdaten der Bundesländer...