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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth : Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data
Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew John - 2015
We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...
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Chapter 43 Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition
Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2281-2341). 2007
This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to economic growth and development over time and across countries. Particular attention is paid to the roles of improvements in agricultural technology and of the human capital of...
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Unrewarded careers in the creative class : the strange case of bohemian graduates
Communian, Roberta; Faggian, Alessandra; Li, Qian Cher - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 89 (2010) 2, pp. 389-409
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
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Sustained Economic Growth and Physical Capital Taxation in a Creative Region
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2022
We study the properties of economic growth in a region that is driven by the activities of the so-called creative class. On the consumption side of our regional economy, we focus on an infinitely lived creative class household and on the production side of this same economy, we concentrate on a...
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Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
Acemoglu, Daron; Dell, Melissa - 2009
We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...
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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities
Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019
. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children …'s largest cities, across cities and over time. It then studies how age structure affects economic growth for a global cross …-section of mega-cities. Using various identification strategies, the analysis finds that mega-cities with higher dependency …
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Cities of workers, children or seniors? : stylized facts and possible implications for growth in a global sample of cities
Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - In: Regional science & urban economics 87 (2021), pp. 1-15
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Workforce skills across the urban-rural hierarchy
Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M.; Stolarick, Kevin - 2012
This paper examines differences in the skill content of work throughout the United States, ranging from densely populated city centers to isolated and sparsely populated rural areas. To do so, we classify detailed geographic areas into categories along the entire urban-rural hierarchy. An...
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Resilience, skill endowment and diversity : evidence from US metropolitan areas
Fusillo, Fabrizio; Consoli, Davide; Quatraro, Francesco - 2019
By adopting the evolutionary approach to resilience, this paper discusses and empirically investigate the determinants of the ability of region to resist, absorb, and react to recessionary shocks. The recent 2008 Great Recession has extremely affected most of the advanced economies all over the...
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