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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

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Child Labor and the Education of a Society

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …

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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …

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Language and Labor Market Success

Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...

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