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Regional structure of wages and external economies in Spain
Melendez, Esteban Sanroma; Lobo, Raul Ramos - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 1999
Regional data on wages for the Spanish economy show that workers who live in developed regions earn more than workers in other regions. Literature on external economies provides a possible explanation of why firms do not move from these regions to others where wages are lower. Previous studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022338
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Capital humano local y productividad en las provincias espanolas
Melendez, Esteban Sanroma; Lobo, Raul Ramos - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2001
In the last decade, different studies have tried to contrast empirically the existence of a relationship between local human capital and the productivity of a given territory, and the possible presence of external economies. The most common result has been the finding of a positive relationship...
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Local human capital and productivity: An analysis for the Spanish regions
Ramos, Raúl; Sanromà, Esteve - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2006
In this paper, we examine the relationship between the stock of human capital and productivity in the Spanish regions (NUTS III), and assess whether the transmission channel involves external economies. The empirical evidence points to a positive relationship between the two variables, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772726
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Local human capital and external economies: evidence for Spain
Sanromà, Esteve; Ramos, Raúl - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2001
It is assumed that human capital external economies can increase factor productivity. However, as human capital is accumulated in an unequal way in the territory, productivity improvements will be different among territories. So, in the presence of labour mobility, wage differences will induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772732
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City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703768
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Career Networks and Job Matching - Evidence on the Microeconomic Foundations of Human Capital Externalities
Heuermann, Daniel F. - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2009
whether human capital externalities arise from higher job matching efficiency in skilled regions. Using two samples of highly … raises wages on the incidence of job change by up to three percent, pointing to the importance of improved job matching … opportunities in human capital rich regions as a microeconomic source of human capital externalities. Evidence on regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184993
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Job Matching Efficiency in Skilled Regions - Evidence on the Microeconomic Foundations of Human Capital Externalities
Heuermann, Daniel F. - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2011
whether human capital externalities arise from a higher job matching efficiency in skilled regions. Using two samples of …. Taken together, these findings suggest that human capital externalities partly arise because workers in skilled regions have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833863
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Quantile Estimates for Social Returns to Education in Turkey: 2006-2009
Bakis, Ozan; Davutyan, Nurhan; levent, haluk; polat, sezgin - Galatasaray Üniversitesi İktisadi Araştırmalar … - 2013
Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with regional data we estimate both private and external returns to education in Turkey using Instrumental Variables, Ordinary Least Squares, Quantile Regression and Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression methods. Our results indicate a median...
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More on the dynamics in the endogenous growth model with human capital
Alonso-Carrera, Jaime - In: Investigaciones Economicas 25 (2001) 3, pp. 561-583
This paper shows that multiple and globally indeterminate long-run growth rates can easily arise in the two-sector growth model introduced by Lucas (1988). This result is generated by the existence of diminishing returns to time at the private level in human capital accumulation and the...
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Human capital externalities, departmental co-authorship and research productivity.
Neri, Frank; Rodgers, Joan - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2012
Lucas (1988) hypothesised that human capital externalities explain persistent productivity growth and become manifest …, measure of human capital and confirms the existence of human capital externalities within Australian economics departments …
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