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Human Capital Formation in Germany: An Untapped Potential
Klös, Hans-Peter; Plünnecke, Axel - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 39-45
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037379
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Soziale Ertragsraten und Verteilungseffekte des Humankapitals: internationale Evidenz.
Gundlach, Erich; Hemmer, Hans-Rimbert - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2003
Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung …. Klenow und Rodriguez-Clare (1997) sowie Hall und Jones (1999) weisen dem Produktionsfaktor Humankapital für die Erklärung … Basis verbesserter Humankapital-Daten bestritten wird. Weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben ist in der aktuellen empirischen …
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Estimating the Benefit of High School for College-Bound Students
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2010
Studies based on instrumental variable techniques suggest that the value of a high school education is large for potential dropouts, yet we know much less about the size of the benefit for students who will go on to post-secondary education. To help fill this gap, I measure the value-added of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599402
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Estimating the BenefiÂ…t of High School for College-Bound Students
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Studies based on instrumental variable techniques suggest that the value of a high school education is large for potential dropouts, yet we know much less about the size of the benefiÂ…t for students who will go on to post-secondary education. To help Â…fill this gap, I measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511758
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investment; Evidence From Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
(identified due to competence). First, the results show that it is important to distinguish between discrete and high level … ability (competence) correlate with the variety of experience, but the nature of the correlation differs. Particularly for … males, the 'Jack-of-all-Trades'-hypothesis predominately relates to competence and not to desire." (Author's abstract, IAB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018015
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Innovationstätigkeit von Unternehmen : die Rolle von Qualifikationen, Kooperationen und Clusterpolitik
Falck, Oliver; Kipar, Stefan; Wößmann, Ludger - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Arbeitsbereich Humankapital und Innovation erstellt und im Dezember 2010 abgeschlossen … werden Unterschiede im Humankapital der Belegschaft und im Kooperationsverhalten der Unternehmen im Innovationsprozess … institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen am Beispiel von Clusterpolitiken in Deutschland diskutiert, wobei exemplarisch der Effekt der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323304
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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth
Schlitte, Friso - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740434
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
(identified due to competence). First, the results show that it is important to distinguish between discrete and high level … ability (competence) correlate with the variety of experience, but the nature of the correlation differs. Particularly for … males, the 'Jack-of-all-Trades'-hypothesis predominately relates to competence and not to desire." (Author's abstract, IAB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592315
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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth
Schlitte, Friso - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592491