human capital, specifically education. This literature has two main strands. First, much of modern growth theory puts human … capital at center-stage, building on older notions of human capital externalities as an engine of economic growth. Empirical … within countries, is meager. There is a strong association between average earnings and average education across nations and …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals' human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

immigrants and natives in Sweden - how the method can be applied to correct any measure of segregation for differences between …

known about the private return to education, much less is known about the more important question of what happens to … of human capital can benefit society in ways that are not fully reflected in the private return of education. Human … individual productivity. Furthermore, increases in education can reduce criminal participation and improve voters political …

. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on … immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which explicitly allows for misclassification performs better than a …