Economists agree at least on this: it is difficult to find evidence for, or merely to imagine any growth mechanism that does not work through the increase of a stock of capital in one way or another. From a more policy point of view - in particular in terms of the debate of economic development...

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4% during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5% by 2000. Our analysis finds little...

Gibt es einen Exodus des deutschen Forschernachwuchses vor allem in die Vereinigten Staaten? Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 4/2008 unterstreichen Lydia Hartwig und Johanna Witte, Bayerisches Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung, München, die...