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Human capital, technology diffusion and economic growth : evidence from Prussian census data

Hornung, Erik - 2012

This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...

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Financial constraints, endogenous educational choices and self-selection of migrants

Assunção, Juliano J.; Carvalho, Leandro - In: Brazilian review of econometrics : BRE ; the review of … 33 (2013) 2, pp. 99-122

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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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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa …

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Skills heterogeneity and immigrant-native wage gap in the European countries

Tverdostup, Maryna; Paas, Tiiu - In: International journal of economic sciences : IJoES 7 (2018) 2, pp. 119-142

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Firms left behind : emigration and firm productivity

Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017

This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm total factor productivity. We exploit time,...

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Education and economic growth : a co-integration approach

Adu, Derick Taylor; Denkyirah, Elisha Kwaku - In: International journal of education economics and development 8 (2017) 4, pp. 228-249

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Chapter 10 Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

Grossman, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 577-633). 2006

This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …

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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? : the role of foreign investment, human resources and geography

Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003

, education and innovation as well as geographical factors in a model of economic growth. The key relationships are estimated with … have appeared. Surprisingly, the high level of secondary education played no role to growth. Higher education, in contrast …

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Education, health and economic growth in African countries

Eggoh, Jude; Houeninvo, Hilaire; Sossou, Gilles-Armand - In: Journal of economic development 40 (2015) 1, pp. 93-111

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