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A Century of Human Capital and Hours
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012
supply to quantitatively assess the contribution of exogenous variations in productivity (wage) and life expectancy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897051
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A Century of Human Capital and Hours
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012
supply to quantitatively assess the contribution of exogenous variations in productivity (wage) and life expectancy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556280
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Comparative advantage and moonlighting
Fuller, David L.; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Auray, Stéphane - 2019
The proportion of multiple jobholders (moonlighters) is negatively correlated with productivity (wages) in cross … seemingly contradictory facts. An income effect explains the negative correlation with productivity while a comparative advantage … data. There are three exogenous driving forces: productivity, number of children and the proportion of skilled workers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015679
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The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012
Between 1940 and 2000 there has been a substantial increase of educational attainment in the United States. What caused this trend? We develop a model of human capital accumulation that features a non-degenerate distribution of educational attainment in the population. We use this framework to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850113
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The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008
Between 1940 and 2000 there has been a substantial increase of educational attainment in the United States. What caused this trend? We develop a model of schooling decisions in order to assess the quantitative contribution of technological progress in explaining the evolution of education. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572541
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The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010
earnings across educational groups and growth in aggregate labor productivity. These restrictions imply modest increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513292
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The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012
Between 1940 and 2000 there has been a substantial increase of educational attainment in the United States. What caused this trend? We develop a model of human capital accumulation that features a non-degenerate distribution of educational attainment in the population. We use this framework to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652001
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The Evolution of Education : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008
Between 1940 and 2000 there has been a substantial increase of educational attainment in the United States. What caused this trend? We develop a model of schooling decisions in order to assess the quantitative contribution of technological progress in explaining the evolution of education. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214147
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The American Frontier : Technology versus Immigration
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008
main driving forces were productivity growth and the declining cost of transportation. International immigration played a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049212
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The Mechanics of Individually- and Socially-Optimal Decisions During an Epidemic
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2020
I present a model where work implies social interactions and the spread of a disease is described by an SIR-type framework. Upon the outbreak of a disease reduced social contacts are decided at the cost of lower consumption. Private individuals do not internalize the effects of their decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095976