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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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Quantifying the Macroeconomic Impact of COVID-19-Related School Closures Through the Human Capital Channel
la Maisonneuve, Christine de; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023
education (not considered here) would inflate them. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will …
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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium
Slavík, Ctirad - 2020
, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …
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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement
Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew C.; … - 2022
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306849
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Male Investment in Schooling with Frictional Labour and Marriage Markets
Bonilla, Roberto - 2020
We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained sequential job search, and can choose to improve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847076
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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274864
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Climate Changes Affect Human Capital
Caruso, German Daniel; Marcos, Inés de; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
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Consequences of Parental Job Loss on the Family Environment and on Human Capital Formation - Evidence from Plant Closures
Mörk, Eva - 2019
with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children …
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Inequality, Low-Intensity Immigration and Human Capital Formation in the Regions of Chile, 1820-1939
Baten, Jörg - 2020
received the necessary education to make full use of their talent for the regional economy, especially in the south. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838234
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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with …
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