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Unequal access to higher education in the Czech Republic: The role of spatial distribution of universities
Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - 2012
. Estimation results suggest that the presence of a university per se is not driving student's decision to apply. Further we find …
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Earnings tenure profiles: tests of agency and human capital theories using individual performance data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2007
policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …
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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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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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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 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. …
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The phantom of the opera: Cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2010
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 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 …
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth: the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 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/10010269407
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938