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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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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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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2003

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education...

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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - 2004

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...

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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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Experience and Technology Adoption

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2004

Vintage human capital models imply that young workers will be the primary adopters and beneficiaries of new technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital increases over the lifecycle, technological change may...

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Job Tenure in Britain : Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects

Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2004

We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with the characteristics of individual employees and those of the workplace in which they work. The various individual...

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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

This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic...

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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs

Macpherson, David A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls...

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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...

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