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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis
Le, Thanh - 2006
This paper focuses on the role of R&D efforts – both domestic and foreign – and human capital investments to the development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the significance of labour mobility as an effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448802
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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530246
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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009
In my first paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions of log migration on economic growth, I also instrument for growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476584
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Brain drain and factor complementarity
Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2006
In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452524
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Human Capital in New Firms
Müller, Bettina - 2009
the jack-ofall-trades model by Lazear (2005) and the second the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to … predictions of the O-ring theory are supported by the data. The O-ring theory predicts that individuals sort between firms … random assignment of individuals to firms. The results show that, contrary to the prediction of the theory, individuals with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471729
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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy
Müller, Normann - 2009
'public finance', 'political economy', 'growth theory', 'human capital theory', and 'innovation-driven growth theory … Zusammenhang zwischen Humankapital und Innovationen zusätzlich auf Mikroebene nachzugehen.Dies realisiert der Autor im letzten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475316
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Human Capital in Newly Established Firms - Four Empirical Investigations
Müller, Kathrin Marie - 2011
junger Unternehmen haben. Insbesondere das Humankapital der Gründer scheint maßgeblich sowohl das Überleben, als auch die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475327
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Essays on High-Value Patenting in Germany in an International Perspective 1880-1932
Labuske, Kirsten - 2007
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to look at the worldwide relevance of high-value patents granted in Germany between the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and foreign patentees to reap the fruits of their intellectual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475340
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Quantitative analyses of long-run human capital development: age heaping as an indicator for numeracy
Crayen, Dorothee - 2009
For researchers studying the economic development of nations, the availability of human capital data is crucial. Economists making efforts to examine the impact of human resources on economic development before the end of World War II often face massive problems. Methods of collecting data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475361
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Essays on innovation in Germany (1877 - 1914)
Yin, Shuxi - 2005
This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The first chapter examines the successive waves of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475363