Recently, the EU Council adopted a new labour migration policy instrument - the EU Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting the highly skilled workers to the EU. The present paper examines the potential impacts, which BC may cause on less developed sending countries (LDC). Our results suggest that the...

This paper combines three prototype endogenous growth models, the models with human capital accumulation introduced by Uzawa [1965] and Lucas [1988], variety expansion by Romer [1990], and quality improvements by Aghion and Howitt [1992], in order to investigate how these three engines of growth...

The purpose of the article is to determine the link between investing in human cap- ital and the formation of the creative economy. Given that human capital is consid- ered both a factor in the socio-economic development of countries and a prerequisite for the formation of the creative economy...

Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets...

We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...

The Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission commissioned Deloitte and RAND Europe to undertake a study with the aim to better understand the impact of public policy on innovation. In particular, the objective of the study is twofold: enhance the evidence base...