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Why should state government invest in college education? : an equilibrium approach for the US in 2000
Shields, Michael P. (contributor) - 2008
the existence of these positive externalities for the US in 2000 in estimates using the Current Population Survey … too little in college education. -- Human capital ; externalities ; higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729416
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500969
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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Why should state government invest in college education? An equilibrium approach for the US in 2000
Shields, Michael P. - 2008
the existence of these positive externalities for the US in 2000 in estimates using the Current Population Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268729
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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2009
This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including investments in secular human capital, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158065
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Country of Origin, Earnings Convergence, and Human Capital Investment : A New Method for the Analysis of U.S. Immigrant Economic Assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse … relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244052
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What accounts for the US ascendancy to economic superpower by the early 20th century : the morrill act - human capital hypothesis
Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...
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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US
Winters, John V. - In: Regional science & urban economics 48 (2014), pp. 190-198
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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US
Winters, John V. - 2013
Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor … availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper … positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities. …
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Global Outsourcing of Human Capital and the Incidence of Unemployment in the United States
Ogloblin, Constantin - 2008
The study is the first to examine empirically the impact of the new wave of global job outsourcing on skill-specific patterns of involuntary unemployment in the U.S. using the latest individual-level data. The estimates from a probit model show that, so far, global human-capital outsourcing has...
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