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Jellal, Mohamed; Nordman, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage … is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail … of the wage distribution. …

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Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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Migration des Elites Norme Culturelle et Formation de la Diaspora

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

One considers a model of accumulation of the human capital in the presence of the international migration offers. One shows that under certain conditions,this option can support the increase in the stock of the national human capital by taking of account the externalities. Thus the `brain drain'...

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Economic growth In the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...

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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Fertility

Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We present a general equilibrium dynamic model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization but households face the...

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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Morocco education and employment a theory

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of this economy is characterized by the size of the employment of workers … accepting wage for the specific training needed as well as the firms incentive to invest in new technologies given the … of training is required for the job offered. Both the long term equilibrium wage offered and population distribution are …

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Education investissements directs étrangers et croissance économique réflexions pour le maroc

Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present an endogenous growth model with technological externalities emitted the presence of the foreign direct investments. We showed that the net positive impact on the growth of these investments may be if and only if the host country such as Morocco has reached a minimal level of human...

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White discrimination in provision of black education: plantations and towns

Canaday, Neil; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We present a model of public provision of education for blacks in two discriminatory regimes, white plantation controlled, and white town controlled. We show that the ability to migrate to a non-discriminating district constrains the ability of both types of whites to discriminate. The model...

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