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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium : two literatures and their interrelations

Halfdanarson, Benedikt (contributor); … - 2008

economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the … externalities ; urban wage premium …

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor … availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper … positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities. …

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The effect of high-tech clusters on the productivity of top inventors

Moretti, Enrico - 2019

The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in "Computer Science", "Semiconductors" and "Biology and Chemistry", accounting for 70%, 79% and 59% of inventors, respectively. Why do inventors tend to locate near other inventors...

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NDC: the generic old-age pension scheme

Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward E. - 2019

This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the retirement phase of the lifecycle. It discusses the differences in four UPPS designs defined with regard...

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Sectoral shifts, diversification and regional unemployment : evidence from local labour systems in Italy

Basile, Roberto; Girardi, Alessandro; Mantuano, Marianna; … - 2011

Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....

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Specialisation patterns and the synchronicity of regional employment cycles in Europe

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Heine, Jens M. (contributor) - 2004

This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...

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Estimating the external returns to education : evidence from China

Fan, Wen; Ma, Yuanyuan; Wang, Liming - 2015

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an...

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