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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282290
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Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its … negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on … consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282140
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268355
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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition
Kaas, Leo - 2008
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268776
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2003
One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate convincing examples of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261549
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296710
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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646311
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Brain drain and its determinants: a major issue for small states
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268800
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
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The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment
Christiansen, Charlotte; Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; … - 2006
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276649