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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
Ramos, Raul - 2009
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying spatial panel data techniques. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153461
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 percent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 percent in Belgium, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777513
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Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth : Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain
Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2015
We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining … registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the Spanish Statistical Institute (INE). We focus on live births conceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031604
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Brain Refrain and Human Capital Formation in Spain
Blanco-Álvarez, Jose; Parsons, Christopher Robert; … - 2022
We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081417
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The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : Evidence for Spain
Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2021
Spain. The results obtained indicate differing degrees of the transferability of human capital depending on geographic … confirm that in Spain immigrants suffer from over-education, in both incidence and intensity, implying a higher relative wage … penalty and a greater negative impact on immigrants from the second group of countries. As an immigrant's stay in Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325025
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127958
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129925
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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths
Gould, Eric D. - 2011
This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131931
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
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