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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru

Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015

Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...

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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

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The academic progress of Hispanic immigrants

Hull, Marie - 2015

Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show little change in their relative position over the same time frame. Distinguishing Hispanic students...

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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...

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Acquiring human capital through the generations by migration

Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - 2013

Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more...

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Sibling influence on the human capital of the left behind

Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, … - 2013

While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling interactions in such a context. Using panel data from the RUMiC Survey, we find that sibling influence on...

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur's skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both … Netherlands. Individuals with more varied work experience seems indeed more likely to successfully start up a new business and … the relationship between having varied experiences, and being successful in starting up a new business. Our conclusion is …

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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...

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