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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy withheterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features:heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital;intergenerational transfers,...

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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; García Gómez, Pilar; Gielen, … - 2018

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … increased by 6.7 points and earnings rose by 18 percent. Recipients were able to increase earnings by e0.64 for each e1 of DI …

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Optimal income taxation with endogenous human capital

Jacobs, Bas - 2002

This paper augments the theory of optimal linear income taxation by taking into account human capital accumulation as a dimension of labor supply. The distribution of earning potentials is endogenous because agents differ in the ability to learn. Taxation affects utilization rates of human...

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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Human capital and cross-country comparison of inequality

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2002

The paper studies the effects of cross-country differences in the productionprocess of human capital on income distribution and growth. Our overlapping gen-erations economy has the following features: (1) consumers are heterogenous withrespect to parental human capital and wealth; (2)...

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Human capital and cross-country comparison of inequality

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2002

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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

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Uncertainty avoidance and the rate of business ownership across 22 OECD countries, 1976 - 2000

Wennekers, A. R.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2004

This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...

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Human capital and retirement

Alders, Peter - 1999

relation isexamined in a life-cycle earnings model. An employee works full timeuntil retirement. The worker accumulates human …

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