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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 …

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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 …

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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander - 2010

In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment Over the Life-Cycle : New Evidence from PIAAC

Hampf, Franziska - 2016

It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a difference-in-differences model that compares employment...

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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?

Hartog, Joop - 2014

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...

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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006

Boubtane, Ekrame - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after...

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