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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants: A comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants …) local productivity patterns and the immigrants? contribution to them; (ii) the spatial concentration preferences of … concentration and productivity of local human capital. To provide empirical evidence, we compose a cross-sectional database for the …

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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Schünemann, Johannes; Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; … - 2018

increase in labor productivity. This effect is sizable and adds a strong argument for investments in population health over and …

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The simulated enterprise an essential factor in professional training for sustainable development

Costa-Marcu, Dumitra - 2012

, organizational, administrative and fiscal charges, domestic and international trade management, financing, investment banking …

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Agricultural knowledge development: Investing in people (human capital)

Njegovan, Zoran; Jeloécnik, Marko; Potrebić, Velibor - 2012

In the paper the authors are challenging the human capital in agriculture issues and its ability to ensure development and reduce poverty, bringing such way better quality of life for the entire people. They are also discussing the role of high educational system - the causes of inefficiency and...

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Entrepreneurs' Human Capital and Heterogeneous Labor Demand of Newly Established Firms

Müller, Kathrin - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of founders' human capital on the qualification structure of employees in newly established firms. Different corner solution outcome models are compared regarding their goodness of fit and adequacy. Based on survey data of about 1,200 new-born firms in the...

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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Hornung, Erik - 2010

This paper analyzes the long-term effect of technological diffusion on productivity caused by immigration of skilled … hosting the Huguenots achieved higher productivity than others due to diffusion, even 100 years after immigration …

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Migration of the Talented: Can Europe catch up with the U.S.?

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland - 2010

We develop a model to analyze the determinants and effects of an endogenous imperfect transferability of human capital on natives and immigrants. The model reveals that high migration flows and high skill-transferability are mutually interdependent. Moreover, we show that high mobility within a...

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Human Capital and Fertility in Germany after 1990: Evidence from a Multi-Spell Model

Sunder, Marco - 2010

We analyze the timing of birth of the first three children based on German panel data (GSOEP) within a hazard rate framework. A random effects estimator is used to accommodate correlation across spells. We consider the role of human capital - approximated by a Mincer-type regression - and its...

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Human capital, growth and convergence traps: Implications from a cross-country analysis

Petrakis, P.E.; Stamatakis, D. - 2005

This article, adapted from Tamura?s theoretical proposition, empirically investigates capital convergence in three country groups belonging to significantly different development categories: G7, developed and developing. Human capital evaluation, in this context, goes beyond enrolment and/or...

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An Occupational Choice Model for Developing Countries

2007

Most occupational choice models introduce only two options for agents: entrepreneurial activities or wage-employment. However, these models represent inadequately the labor force distribution from developing countries, where an important proportion of the total work force are self-employed...

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