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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...

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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...

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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...

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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?

Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009

There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...

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Human Capital Policy

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …

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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 patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...

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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China

Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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The returns to English-language skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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