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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 … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that … 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

This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping...

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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

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Catch Me If You Can - Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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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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Integrated Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children...

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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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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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Second-Best Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital and Borrowing Constraints

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

We formulate a two-period life-cycle model of saving, labor supply, and human capital investments when individuals differ in ability and initial wealth. Borrowing constraints prevent individuals to optimally smooth consumption over the life-cycle and to optimally invest in human capital. We show...

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