We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two-country business cycle model with incomplete financial markets and frictional labor markets where the unemployment insurance scheme operates across both countries. Cross-country...

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

Der Begriff Humankapital ist in aller Munde - die PISA-Studie kritisiert das deutsche Schulsystem, Studenten demonstrieren für ihr individuelles Recht auf Bildung, Politik und Gesellschaft fordern Humankapitalwachstum als Quelle von Innovation und zukunftsorientiertem Wachstum für alle. Ist...