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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 …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124463
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Training and Search during Unemployment
Spinnewijn, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper incorporates training in the design of unemployment policies. Human capital falls upon displacement and continuously depreciates during unemployment. While training counters the decrease in human capital, it also affects the willingness of the unemployed to search. I characterize the...
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Technological Progress, Mobility, and Economic Growth
Galor, Oded; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper analyses the relationship between technological progress, intergenerational earnings mobility, and economic growth. The analysis demonstrates that the interplay between technological progress and two components that determine individual earnings – parental human capital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124238
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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...
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Occupational Choice Across Generations
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both natives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504309
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So Many Rocket Scientists, so Few Marketing Clerks: Occupational Mobility in Times of Rapid Technological Change
Campos, Nauro F; Dabusinskas, Aurelijus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The transition from centrally planned to market economy involves a process of massive occupational change that has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper investigates this process using data from the 1995 Estonian Labour Force Survey. We find that between 35 and 50 percent of wage...
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‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition
de la Croix, David; Licandro, Omar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
all result from individual decisions. Parents face a trade-off between the number of children they have and the spending … they can afford on each of them in childhood. These childhood development spending will determine children longevity when … second trade-off in allocating their time between increasing their own human capital and rearing children. The model displays …
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Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify where empirical work on education using macro...
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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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