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Human Capital and Growth: Specification Matters

Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries

Arnold, Jens; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

them as regards the relationship between factor shares and speed of convergence. Using cross-country/time-series data, we … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short …-run parameters. Indeed, both theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries due …

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

Beirne, John; Campos, Nauro F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...

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Life Expectancy and the Environment

Mariani, Fabio; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín; Raffin, Natacha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...

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"Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City"? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation

Bauer, Thomas K.; Breidenbach, Philipp; Schmidt, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using the location of baroque opera houses as a natural experiment, Falck et al. (2011) claim to document a positive causal effect of the supply of cultural goods on today's regional distribution of talents. This paper raises serious doubts on the validity of the identification strategy...

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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, but this need not indicate localized human capital externalities are at work. A large initial share...

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The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States - A Generational Accounting Perspective

Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...

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