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Sectoral Cognitive Skills, R&D, and Productivity : A Cross-Country Cross-Sector Analysis
Sasso, Simone - 2017
, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …
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The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West : Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?
Naudé, Wim - 2019
Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I first document the extent of the decline in terms of entrepreneurial entry rates; the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862486
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Managers and Productivity Differences
Guner, Nezih - 2016
productivity differences, and the size-dependent distortions emphasized in the misallocation literature. Our findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002439
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - 2021
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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Wage Discrimination Against Immigrants : Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies : Measurement Methods and Comparative Results
Corrado, Carol A. - 2012
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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : An Analysis by Gender
Fraumeni, Barbara - 2019
as multifactor productivity with and without human capital. (A previous paper (Fraumeni, et al. 2017) described the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868811
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009508
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016365
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Can Money Change Who We are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011
The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
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