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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137039
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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137380
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What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137056
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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097739