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Specifying Human Capital: A Review, Some Extensions, and Development Effects

Wößmann, Ludger - 2000

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

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Low Social Mobility in Bolivia: Causes and Consequences for Development

Andersen, Lykke E. - 2001

This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an inadequate...

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Regional competitiveness and training in Germany

Foders, Federico - 1997

This paper analyses the German training system from the point of view of regional policy. The problems and prospects of the German system of first and further vocational training are addressed followed by an overview over macro and micro approaches to an empirical assessment of the regional...

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The augmented Solow model with Mincerian schooling and externalities

Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - 2008

We combine the augmented Solow model with the Mincer equation to derive a specification that identifies an education externality within a production function framework. The previous empirical literature has not reached a consensus about the size of the education externality, which is given by...

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Human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions in male and female occupations

Görlich, Dennis; De Grip, Andries - 2007

This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that...

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Income and democracy: a comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2008

-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as a causal factor of democracy. We argue that their … empirical approach must produce insignificant income effects and that a small change in the estimation process immediately … reveals the strong effect of income on democracy. …

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Monetary overhang and the dynamics of prices, exchange rates, and income in the transition to a market economy

Hofman, Bert; Koop, Michael J. - 1990

The long road from capitalism to capitalism the Eastern European economies have made has been paved with many economic problems, but the transition from a command economy into a market economy is likely to become a bumpy ride as well. Apart from the major real economic reforms that have to take...

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Self-selection, socialization, and risk perception: an empirical study

Weisenfeld, Ursula; Ott, Ingrid - 2009

We analyze students' knowledge and risk perception of four technologies. The aim is to find out whether there is a …, advanced students perceive lower risks than beginners, and students in a technical study area perceive lower risks than … students in a non-technical area. Factor analyses show that common dimensions of risk are the technological areas and not the …

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental investigation

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …

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