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The spatial distribution of human capital : can it really be explained by regional differences in market access?

Karahasan, Burhan Can; López-Bazo, Enrique - 2011

This paper checks for the robustness of the estimate of the impact of market access on the regional variability of human capital, derived from the NEG literature. The hypothesis is that the estimate of the coefficient of the measure of market access is actually capturing the effect of regional...

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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013

In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing...

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Saving and wealth inequality

De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio - 2017

Why are some people wealth rich while others are poor? To what extent can governments affect inequality? Which … wealth inequality can help us to understand and quantify the determinants of the outcomes that we observe in the data and to … medical-expense risk are crucial determinants of savings and wealth inequality and that we need to look at more data to …

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Micro foundations of earnings differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017

This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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The returns to education : a meta-study

Clark, Gregory; Nielsen, Christian Alexander Abildgaard - 2024

There have been many studies estimating the causal effect of an additional year of education on earnings. The majority employ administrative changes in the minimum school leaving age as the mechanism allowing identification. Here we survey 66 such estimates. However, remarkably, while the...

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The impact of parental health shocks on child schooling and labor : evidence from Thailand

Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2023

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Human capital and macroeconomic growth : Austria and Germany 1960-1997; an update

Marin, Dalia; Koman, Reinhard - 2005

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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#MeToo meets the mutual fund industry : productivity effects of sexual harassment

Cici, Gjergji; Hendriock, Mario; Jaspersen, Stefan; … - 2019 - This draft: August 2019

Sexual harassment, a widespread problem in the workplace, arguably keeps female employees from optimally employing their human capital. We show that removing or diminishing this friction improves productivity. Specifically, using the male-dominated fund industry as our testing ground, we show...

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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021

Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...

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