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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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The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...
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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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Human Capital and Productivity in British Columbia
Murray, Alexander; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011
This report provides an assessment of human capital development in British Columbia. The province's performance is above average according to the majority of the indicators we analyze, relative to both the rest of Canada and other OECD countries. However, this does not mean that there is no room...
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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
Whalen, Charles J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book pays tribute to Vernon Briggs and his enduring mark on the study of humna resources. The chapters, by his students and colleagues, explore and extend his work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor markets. Students and scholars of economics, public policy,...
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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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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
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