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Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...
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capitalas an input in the education sector and (ii) leisure as anadditional argument in the utility function. The analysis of …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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We present a multi-country theory of economic growth and R&D-driven technological progress in which countries are …
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We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge …
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We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight …
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This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s, focusing on the presence of ICT technologies in households -in particular modempossession.To investigate these determinants, a sequential hurdle model is estimated where people first...
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Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...
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are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...
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