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Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

Meckl, Jürgen; Zink, Stefan - 2003

The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital changes relative factor prices and thus incentives to acquire skills, thereby altering the...

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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...

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Adjusting Household Structure : School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - 2004

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262125

The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

opportunity for faster human capital investment and earning growth. In addition, many country-of-origin acquired skills that are … investment and, using 1970-1990 census data, presents strong evidence of a systematic and important inverse relationship between … are not controlled for. The immigrant human capital investment model presented here explores general principles that may …

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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

-earnings profile, consistent with lower initial investment in firm-specific training. Interestingly, the overall wage premium increases …

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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind

Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009

Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...

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The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment

Christiansen, Charlotte; Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; … - 2006

that are efficient in terms of investment goods, and a range of educations that are inefficient, and may be chosen for …

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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012

This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings and provides empirical evidence for a model that predicts a positive impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. At...

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Maternal gender role attitudes, human capital investment, and labour supply of sons and daughters

Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - 2012

Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that...

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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2008

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy...

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