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Labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility : theory and evidence

Hennig, Jan-Luca - 2021

. Specifically, I incorporate the task framework into an overlapping generations model, which models education choice as a function …

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...

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The name says it all : multigenerational social mobility in Switzerland, 1550-2019

Häner, Melanie; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021

Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...

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We don't need no education : the effect of persistent income shocks on human capital

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2021

We explore the effects of persistent income shocks on human capital using oil price fluctuations in a large sample of relevant African countries and employing micro data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Theoretically, such shocks enable human capital investment via...

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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

concerning the clear identification of the education and creativity components of human capital. The main purpose of this paper …

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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...

Orrù, Enrico - 2012

). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …

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Knowledge economy formation in Russian regions in 2000th

Zemtsov, Stepan; Komarov, Vladimir; Baburin, Vyacheslav - 2015

blocks: the level of economic development (GRP growth rate and GRP per capita), education and human capital (number of … students per capita and the average number of education years for employees), science and innovation (number of researchers and … capita). Since the performance of education and science are relatively stable for the Russian regions, characteristics of GRP …

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The risk and return of human capital investments

Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 154-163

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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities

Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning the underlying reasons for productivity differences in...

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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction

Dahmann, Sarah Christina - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 47 (2017), pp. 35-47

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