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Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human … countries, allowing for migration may generate a Pareto-improvement for all current and future generations. Without transfers …
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migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that …
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I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational … migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to … estimates of the model, I characterize the migration behavior of different college majors and find that migration flows are …
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261293
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human … countries, allowing for migration may generate a Paretoimprovement for all current and future generations. Without transfers …
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Hochschulen leisten als Produzenten von Humankapital einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Bildung, Erhaltung und Steigerung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Humankapitalbestandes. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird eine Abschätzung des Umfanges und der Entwicklung der hochschulbezogenen Humankapitalbestände in...
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It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
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We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information on preschool attendance in the context of a rapid expansion in the supply of preprimary places....
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The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired education may not be restricted to the individual but might spill over to others as well, accruing at higher aggregation levels, in particular at the macro-economic one. We offer an extensive summary and...
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