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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
van der Beek, Karine; Justman, Moshe - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
We draw on quantitative and descriptive data from Robert Campbell's widely cited manual for prospective apprentices, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship...
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Maternal Health and Fertility: An International Perspective
Albanesi, Stefania - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise in women's human capital, relative to men. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903252
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2015
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
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A Theory of Education and Health
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both … Netherlands. Individuals with more varied work experience seems indeed more likely to successfully start up a new business and … relationship between having varied experiences, and being successful in starting up a new business. Our conclusion is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272604
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balancedskill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impactsboth of risk aversion and balanced skills on...
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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance
Perotti, Enrico; Thadden, Ernst Ludwig von - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Legislation affects corporate governance and the return to human and financial capital. We allow the preference of a political majority to determine both the governance structure and the extent of labor rents. In a society where median voters have relatively more at stake in the form of human...
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Regional Inequality and Human Capital Quality: The Impact of Technology on the Arrival Rate of Employment Offers
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human … capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal … entrepreneurs operating legal businesses in a transition context. Using regression techniques on a sample of 399 private business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255961