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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, John; Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland
Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...
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Disrupted schooling: impacts on achievement from the Chilean school occupations
Montebruno, Piero - 2020
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...
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Working life and human capital investment
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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Maternal depression and child human capital: a genetic instrumental-variable approach
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone; … - 2021
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019
In this paper we present a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and … two adjacent cohorts by three years, we document causal evidence that an increase in the working life increases investment …, training, and the reform effect and show that only individuals with a college degree increase human capital investment. Our …
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Education and economic growth
Valero, Anna - 2021
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