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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...
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Civic Capital as the Missing Link
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145406
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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms
Ichniowski, Casey - 2010
Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert - 2014
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior … of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067376
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … highly-remunerated human capital, but other self-employed are negatively selected on those same abilities; entrepreneurs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906767
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2017
ideas, and higher educational attainments of entrepreneurs and workers, enhance endogenous economic growth by augmenting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948923
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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S....
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
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Behind the Gate Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we examine the validity of such motivations and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066692
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self employment for dry cleaning than other immigrant groups, and...
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