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Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital
A'Hearn, Brian; Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Western Europe had already diverged from the East and reached high numeracy levels by 1600, long before the rise of mass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791567
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Downward, Paul; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
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Is the German Apprenticeship System a Panacea for the US Labour Market?
Harhoff, Dietmar; Kane, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Advocates of apprenticeship programmes often argue as if it is simply a matter of historical accident that such investment by US firms has been hindered. This paper explores the structure of incentives underpinning the German system of apprenticeship training. First, we describe three...
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Productivity, Wages and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies …. The primary theme of the paper is that the differences between Europe and the United States have been substantially … exaggerated in recent work. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the United States …
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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Self-Selection of Migrant Workers: Migration Premium and (no) Returns to Skills
Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Why do low-skilled workers choose to work in a foreign economy and what determines their wages? The Paper empirically implements the Roy self-selection model to study this question. It does so using a unique dataset on Palestinian workers working locally and in the Israeli economy. The data...
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Access to Public Capital Markets and Employment Growth
Borisov, Alexander; Ellul, Andrew; Sevilir, Merih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper investigates the importance of accessing public capital markets through an initial public offering (IPO), and the consequent relaxation of firms’ financial constraints, for firm-level long term employment decisions. We find that firms significantly increase post-IPO investment in...
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Growth and Human Capital: A Network Approach
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Giannitsarou, Chryssi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a standard endogenous growth model with overlapping generations. The human capital of a household depends on investment in education and on average human capital of the...
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Retaining through training; even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
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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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