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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe
Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016
This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...
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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China
Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019
data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993244
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The spillover effect appears to be much stronger before 1994. We … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577801
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The spillover effect appears to be much stronger before 1994. We … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. -- China ; TFP growth ; economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735417
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Does college location affect the location choice of new college graduates? : evidence from China
Huang, Mian; Xing, Chunbing; Xiaoyong, Cui - 2019
Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034255
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces : a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …. -- technical change ; TFP growth ; provinces ; China ; ICT ; FDI ; infrastructure …
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941555
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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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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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