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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...

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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012

the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting … population in Norway with complete description of their education level. The data allow for estimation of the agglomeration … effect for different education groups and the results show that agglomeration economies are increasing with education level …

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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Do Modern Forms of Human Capital Matter in Primitive Economies? Comparative Evidence from Bolivia

Godoy, Ricardo; Karlan, Dean S.; Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti - 2008

We examine the correlation between modern human capital and income among adult men in four foraging horticultural societies of Bolivia. Despite their remote location, we find results similar to those found in developed nations. We find that: (a) education correlates with 4.5% higher overall...

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there is still considerable uncertainty over what types of human capital are most important. Both...

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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany

Heidland, Tobias - 2013

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

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Language and labor market success

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

translation to apply pre-migration human capital in the destination country labor market. …

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