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 …

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 …

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 …

. Focusing on low-skilled immigrants, this paper empirically examines the effect of minimum wages on location decisions within …

, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …, gender, education, religion, etc.) on their ethnic identity using the ethnosizer. This note presents a basic theoretical …

literature which studies the effect of the immigrants' characteristics, such as age, gender, education, religion, age at arrival …, stock of immigrants in the host country, etc., on their ethnic identity (such as the Ethnosizer). In addition, this paper …

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 …