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Immigration, Human Capital and Growth in the Host Country: Evidence from Pooled Country Data

Dolado, Juan J.; Goria, Alessandra; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Immigration as a source of population growth is traditionally represented by neoclassical growth models with negative …

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Parental Support for Human Capital Investment by Young Adults

Ermisch, John F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The paper develops two models in which parents support their adult child’s human capital investment through financial transfers and/or coresidence. In one, parents are altruistic, and in the other they make loans to children for purely selfish reasons. Econometric estimates using the first...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Family Matters

Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young people’s educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991–5) of the British Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is...

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Economic Integration, Factor Mobility, and Wage Convergence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper studies the effect of economic integration of two regions on the mobility of skilled and unskilled workers across regions and on the resulting location of industrial activity. In particular, it studies what happens when wages in both regions are set by the unions of the ‘West’ –...

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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where heterogenous agents interact through local public goods or externalities (school funding, neighbourhood effects) and economy-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge...

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Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy

Weizsäcker, Robert K von - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Drawing on and extending the theory of human capital, a comprehensive life-cycle model of individual earnings is designed. The approach taken permits an isolated analysis of three interconnected levels of aggregation (intra-cohort distribution, overall distribution, and lifetime distribution)...

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An employment-oriented investment strategy for Europe

Internationale Arbeitsorganisation / Research Department - 2015

action; Employment impact of the Investment Plan; Need to lay the groundwork for a balanced and sustained strategy …; INTRODUCTION; A GROWTH, INVESTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT NEXUS IN THE EU:; 1 GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE EU; Limited growth in the EU has …; ... and the recovery is losing momentum.; Figure 1 Economic and employment in the EU: Forecasts and performances; Figure 2 …

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Crisis responses, competitiveness and jobs

Internationale Arbeitsorganisation / Research Department - 2014

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Uncertainty in turbulent times : economic analysis and outlook for Central, East and Southeast Europe : wiiw forecast report spring 2020

Pindyuk, Olga; Bykova, Alexandra; Grieveson, Richard; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche - 2020

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