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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …
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Firm-Level Human Capital and Innovation : Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960108
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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education...
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261806
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Experience and Technology Adoption
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2004
Vintage human capital models imply that young workers will be the primary adopters and beneficiaries of new technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital increases over the lifecycle, technological change may...
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Weiss, Yoram; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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