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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; Werner, Katharina - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...
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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns
Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017
To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
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Firm training
Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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Creativity over time and space : a historical analysis of European cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 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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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
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