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employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on … results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may vary with geography such as R …
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The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper proposes a simple...
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In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …
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factor productivity, consistent with a theory where immigration increases the variety of skills available for production. We …
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