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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa

Berman, Nicolas - 2015

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …

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Banking and Industrialization

Heblich, Stephan - 2015

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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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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The Complementary between Technology and Human Capital in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Franck, Raphael - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

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Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Run Growth

Crayen, Dorothee; Baten, Jörg - 2021

contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America …

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Job Search, Human Capital and Wage Inequality

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labor market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...

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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2013

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...

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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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Finance, Talent Allocation, and Growth

D'Acunto, Francesco - 2018

The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...

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