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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360612
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Schools, School Quality and Academic Achievement:Evidence from the Philippines
Bacolod, Marigee P.; Tobias, Justin L. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
children's achievement growth using the education production function.Using rich data from the Philippines, we introduce and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360895
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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.
Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870600
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State-Building, The Original Push For Institutional Changes In Modern China, 1840-1950
Deng, Kent G. 171897390 - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
The period of 1840 (when the Opium War broken out) till now is commonly regarded as China’s modern era, ‘modern’ in terms of China’s departure from its original growth and developmental path. In this context, the term modern has been intimately associated with something alien to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870888
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It's So Hard to Get Good Help
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651287
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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020
period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213777
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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015083753
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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015081348
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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261633
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860715