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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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Optimal Higher Education Enrollment and Productivity Externalities in a Two-Sector Model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2021
acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315884
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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research : The Case of Germany
Rauber, Michael - 2009
We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career …-patterns of research productivity as measured by journal publications are characterized by marked cohort effects. Moreover, the ….S. economists, whereas the life-cycles of older German economists are much flatter. Finally, we find that not only productivity, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766974
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Evaluation of Researchers: A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006
research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094159
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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research: The Case of Germany
Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2007
We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career …-patterns of research productivity as measured by journal publications are characterized by marked cohort effects. Moreover, the ….S. economists, whereas the life-cycles of older German economists are much flatter. Finally, we find that not only productivity, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196329
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137447
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125698
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000838
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157845
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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 manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960108