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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic geography? model based on market size and economic integration. As the … explanatory variables used (proxies for human capital, physical capital, market size and a dummy for market integration … market size of the EU accession countries could contribute to strengthen the disadvantage in high quality segments of …

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area

Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging …-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for 1991-2002. Data inspection confirms the existence of a fairly stable … explaining inter-industry wage differentials in the euro area. Both workforce characteristics (e.g., human capital variables) and …

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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration

Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim …

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Regional economic growth and human capital: the role of overeducation

Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach, Jordi; Artís, Manuel - 2009

The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the recent economic performance of European regions is associated with an increase in overeducation....

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … native-born workers in the European Union and presence of immigrants in the local labor market is evaluated from the native …

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