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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2015

The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...

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Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data

Deslauriers, Jonathan; Dostie, Benoit; Gagné, Robert; … - 2018

In this paper, we use linked employer-employee administrative tax data from Canada to estimate the impact of payroll taxes on a variety of firms and workers outcomes. At the firm level, we use geographic and time variations in tax rates to identify the effect of payroll taxes on wage growth at...

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Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Gray, Helen; Stokes, Lucy - 2019

Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes in the proportion of older workers employed and changes in workplace performance. We find some...

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Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor-force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …

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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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Are Microloans Bad for Growth?

Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper constructs a two-period overlapping generations model of human capital investment decisions where a microloan program designed to finance entrepreneurial activities is active. It is shown that, in the presence of human capital externalities (social returns to education) there exists a...

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Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can improve the trade-off between equality and incentives by changing the amount of observable human capital. We provide an intuitive decomposition for the wedge between human-capital...

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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent dynamic models which take income growth and population aging as given. We view these variables as...

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