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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …
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In this paper we study three crucial questions of economic decision-making: a) How are the people motivated in the choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with the criteria for building the human capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on...
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development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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automatically decrease with higher levels of education/knowledge and generational change. Furthermore, the analysis of the voter …
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. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
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When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
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We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the … stages of development witness underenrollment in higher education, while highly developed economies experience overenrollment. …
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This paper is a preliminary look at the benefits to states in the US of subsidizing college education. The benefits … studies are the external benefits of college education on the earnings of both college graduates and those who have not … graduated from college. In completing a college education individuals earn more. In addition, if there are positive external …
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A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … education, we discuss internalization policies associated with child benefits in the pension formula. The second-best scheme …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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