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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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-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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differences. Finally, we find that inequality in human capital distribution increases in time and that, in the long run …, inequality always promotes growth. …
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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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as well, and according to many economists, variations in skill inequality can explain variations in wage inequality …
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This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among … inequality across generations, and particularly how this can enhance the understanding of transmission mechanisms beyond the …
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spatial skill polarization and the divergence of college wage premium among local labor markets. The effects of the China …. The negative effects of the China shock concentrated in exposed regions with a low density of college-educated workers … across sectors and regions. Using a novel measure of “labor market exposure to the China shock”, I document that service …
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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 in particular labor market...
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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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post-migration experience appear to be substitutes, that is, those with greater proficiency have a smaller effect of time …
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