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Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? New insights from the United States

Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 3, pp. 205-221

There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...

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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.

Castro, Rui; Coen-Pirani, Daniele - 2015

We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932-1972 cohorts using a human capital investment model with heterogeneous learning ability. Inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and average learning ability...

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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...

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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

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Human capital and economic activity in urban America

Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M. - 2008

area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

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Serial entrepreneurship: differentiating direct from latent re-entrants

Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - 2007

This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...

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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data

Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007

source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …

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