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Quantile estimation for social returns to education in Turkey : 2006 - 2009
Bakis, Ozan; Davutyan, Nurhan; Levent, Haluk; Polat, Sezgin - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1-23
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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities
Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011
levels? This paper aims to examine these issues with a particular focus on the importance of externalities. Externalities are … defined as region-specific economic effects influencing firm efficiency. These externalities can be broadly divided in the … following categories: i) urbanization economies which relate to diversity and density (Jacobs externalities), ii) localization …
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Human capital externalities and growth
Arteaga Cabrales, Carolina - In: Ensayos sobre política económica 29 (2011), pp. 12-47
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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana - 2013
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
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Bequests or education
Dávila, Julio - 2020
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Police shootings, civic unrest and student achievement : evidence from Ferguson
Gershenson, Seth; Hayes, Michael S. - In: Journal of economic geography 18 (2018) 3, pp. 663-685
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Chapter 51. Human Capital Externalities in Cities
Moretti, Enrico - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2243-2291). 2004
externalities that accrue to local geographic areas. The focus of the chapter is on the empirical issues that arise in identifying … these externalities and on the existing empirical evidence on their magnitude. …
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Chapter 11 Military expenditure and developing countries
Deger, Saadet; Sen, Somnath - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 275-307). 1995
Military expenditure in developing countries raises complex questions regarding growth, development, security and governance. This chapter provides an analytical survey of the effects and causes of defense spending in developing economies. Using stylized facts, theoretical models and empirical...
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Diversity of human capital and regional growth
Noseleit, Florian; Söllner, Rene - 2010
In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we differentiate between industry diversity and human capital diversity. In order to measure human capital diversity we construct a regional measure based on individual...
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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs
Südekum, Jens - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 1, pp. 92-114
Summary Human capital is unequally distributed across cities or regions within a country. The way how the spatial distribution of human capital evolves over time sheds light on the strength of concentration forces for high-skilled workers, such as localised increasing returns to human capital....
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