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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004
I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408328
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Incentives and spillovers in R&D activities: an agency-theoretic analysis of industry-university relations
Lacetera, Nicola - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, I study industry-university relations in a principal- agent framework. Following the existing literature, these relations are interpreted in two ways: (1) as occurring through spillovers of knowledge among different groups of researchers, working for different institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561799
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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005
). Domestic investments should be from Domestic Savings. Domestic Technology should be manned by Domestic Manpower. These could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408439
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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth
Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999
This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125046
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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
infrastructures that were supposed to enhance human capital formation. Since infrastructural and superstructural aspects of … institutions are competitive rather than complementary, the Nelson- Phelps channel for transmitting external technology into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125631
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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
capital, infrastructures that aid human capital formation (schools, hospitals, and the like) are inadequate, so that even when … the local superstructure is generally accepting of external technology, the impact of human capital on performance remains … weakens the Nelson-Phelps channel for transmitting external technology into USNAEs. One obvious policy implication is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125690
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A Test of the Signalling Hypothesis - Evidence from Natural Experiment
Stolorz, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005
The paper proposes an alternative methodology for testing signalling hypothesis based on chances to get a job in a particular class of the job market. The individuals are ranked and matched by an external mechanism, based on preferences of employers in respect to actual observable and perceived...
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005
Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407739
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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data
Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998
Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...
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