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The academic market and the rise of universities in medieval and early modern Europe (1000-1800)
De la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric; Fabre, Alice; … - 2022
best universities (agglomeration), that better scholars were more sensitive to the quality of the university (positive … Middle Ages, and contributed to bolstering universities at the dawn of the Humanistic and Scientiffc Revolutions. We build a … unique database of thousands of scholars from university sources covering all of Europe, construct an index of their ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193506
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The academic market and the rise of universities in medieval and early modern Europe (1000-1800)
De la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric; Fabre, Alice; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187556
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The academic market and the rise of universities in medieval and early modern Europe (1000-1800)
De la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric; Fabre, Alice; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154397
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Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography - A critical reconsideration and correction
Russek, Stephan - 2007
agglomeration is highest when trade costs are high. Besides this minor problem, the second critical issue concerns the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294654
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Human capital externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2007
The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278177
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Human capital externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2009
The paper sheds light on the impact of local human capital endowments on individual wages in Western Germany. Using panel data it shows that regional wage differentials are partly attributable to localized human capital externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285963
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Human capital externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2008
The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285975
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Chapter 19. The Impact of International Migration on Economic Growth in the Global Economy
Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1027-1075). 2015
agglomeration. We consider a wide range of channels through which migrants can influence productivity growth in sending and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025431
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Isolation and Development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Economics Department, Williams College - 2009
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520343
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Human Capital Externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2009
The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184994