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Undernutrition and Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Countries

Dercon, Stefan; Sánchez, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills matter to understand a child's opportunities and outcomes in adulthood. However, it is unclear how non-cognitive skills are acquired and what the role played by household investments is in this process. Motivated by suggestions from the medical literature...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Human Capital, Growth and Inequality in Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

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Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie; Meng, Jingzhou; Tien, Bienvenue; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements in education as well as its...

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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective

Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...

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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of their family backgrounds and invest substantially in their...

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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: New Econometric Evidence

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This Paper uses a unique dataset (covering about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998) and a novel procedure to correct sample selection bias (based on DiNardo,...

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Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle

Barlevy, Gadi; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Economists have long viewed recessions as contributing to increasing inequality. This conclusion is largely based on … data from a period in which inequality was increasing over time, however. This Paper examines the connection between long …-run trends and cyclical variation in earnings inequality. We develop a model in which cyclical and trend inequality are related …

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