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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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The Size Distribution across all "Cities": A Unifying Approach

Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2012

In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether “cities” are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic...

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size. The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy.

Addario, Sabrina Di; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2010

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that doubling the province of work’s population density reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by 2-3 percentage points. This...

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Human Capital Accumulation and the Macroeconomy in an Ageing Society

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - CESifo - 2012

How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answer this question we build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model of a closed economy featuring endogenous factor prices. Finitely-lived individuals are endowed with perfect foresight...

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Ageing and Growth in the Small Open Economy

Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy whichincorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Depending...

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Inequality and Growth: The Dual Role of Human Capital in Development

Eicher, Theo - CESifo - 2000

To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital: A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries

Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - CESifo - 2008

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

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Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - CESifo - 2014

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in … economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many …

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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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