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Humankapital und Wirtschaftswachstum in den Regionen der EU
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 29, pp. 402-408
Regionen hängen in hohem Maße von ihrer Ausstattung mit Humankapital ab. Die hier präsentierten Daten zur regionalen Verteilung … von Humankapital innerhalb der EU-Mitgliedsländer zeigen einen deutlichen Zusammenhang zwischen der … zeichnen sich durch hohe Humankapital- und Einkommensniveaus aus. …
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Pirates of the Mediterranean: An empirical investigation of bargaining with asymmetric information
Ambrus, Attila; Chaney, Eric; Salitskiy, Igor - In: Quantitative Economics 9 (2018) 1, pp. 217-246
We investigate the effect of delay on prices in bargaining situations using a data set containing thousands of captives ransomed from Barbary pirates between 1575 and 1692. Plausibly exogenous variation in the delay in ransoming provides ev- idence that negotiating delays decreased the size of...
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Wandering astray: Teenagers' choices of schooling and crime
Fu, Chao; Grau, Nicolás; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 2, pp. 387-424
We build and estimate a dynamic model of teenagers' choices of schooling and crime, incorporating four factors that may contribute to the different paths taken by different teenagers: heterogeneous endowments, unequal opportunities, uncertainties about one's own ability, and contemporaneous...
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The effect of socio-economic determinants on crime rates: An empirical research in the case of Greece with cointegration analysis
Nikolaos, Dritsakis; Alexandros, Gkanas - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 51-64
The present paper analyzes the relationship between the criminal offences, the function of the justice system and some of their socio-economic determinants in the case of Greece by estimating their dynamic interactions. The analysis covers the period 1971-2006 and the cointegration methodologies...
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Costs of globalization
Kayani, Farrukh Nawaz; Zhongxiu, Zhao; Shah, M. Tahir Ali; … - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 6 (2012) 2, pp. 372-381
China. It is said that inward FDI replaces local domestic capabilities in import-substitution countries. In the case of … China the Chinese domestic industries are lacking technological innovations because of heavy reliance upon FDI. Most of the …-National Companies. In this paper we would try to analyze that whether China's policy of reliance upon FDI is a success or a debacle by …
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The giant graduates: China's strive for high-technology
Opper, Sonja - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 3, pp. 43-48
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Asian economics 12 (2001) 3, pp. 401-417
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...
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Does substance use affect educational outcomes?
Rees, Daniel I. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does the use of alcohol and illegal substances—which is linked to depression, suicide, and crime—reduce academic performance? Recent studies suggest that drinking has a negative, if modest, effect on grades,...
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?
Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher earnings, even for locals with relatively little...
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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