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Human capital—economic growth nexus in the former Soviet Bloc

Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study analyses the role of education in economic development in the republics of the former Socialist Bloc and more specifically the impact of human capital on per capita economic growth in transition economies in the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. The factors that are associated with the...

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Human Capital Spillovers in the Workplace: Labor Diversity and Productivity

Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

shows that most knowledge diversity takes place within the industries. Using a semi-parametric approach, the study finds … that hiring workers who are diversified in their specific knowledge is beneficial for plants’ productivity—the knowledge …-diversity elasticity is about 0.2–0.25 and is robust—and that the benefit of knowledge diversity increase with the size of the plant. This …

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An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of the Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants Using the 2006 Census PUMF and Some Observations on Their Implications for Immigration Policy

Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...

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The Impact of Schooling Reform on Returns to Education in Malaysia

Ismail, Ramlee - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of education reforms on earnings. One of the significant changes in the Malaysian education system was the schooling reform of 1970 that changed the medium of instruction from the English language to the Malaysian national language. Using data...

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A growth model with time allocation and social participation

Bassetti, Thomas; Favaro, Donata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this article we propose a model of growth with human capital accumulation, in which individuals allocate their time among work, education and socio-political participation. Socio-political participation, while subtracting time to education, positively affects individual’s utility; the...

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The Role of Education in Development

Marla, Ripoll; Juan, Cordoba - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Most education around the globe is public. Moreover, investment rates in education as well as schooling attainments differ substantially across countries. We construct a general equilibrium life-cycle model that is consistent with these facts. We provide simple analytical solutions for the...

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Match Effects

Woodcock, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

We present an empirical model of earnings that controls for observable and unobservable characteristics of workers (person effects), unmeasured characteristics of their employers (firm effects), and unmeasured characteristics of worker-firm matches (match effects). We interpret these as the...

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Human Capital Heterogeneity: University Choice and Wages

Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of post-secondary education on wages in Israel. The focus is on the impact of university choice on individual wages controlling for the degree acquired and the area of study. Although the raw data indicate that universities command a different return to education,...

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Immigration and the Growing Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap

Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada...

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Job and residential mobility in the Netherlands: the influence of human capital, household composition and location

Kronenberg, Kristin; Carree, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This study identifies and evaluates determinants of employees’ job and residential mobility. It examines mobility of fulltime employees in selected sectors in 2003/2004, using register data provided by Statistics Netherlands. We estimate a multinomial model of job and residential change. The...

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