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The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the economic performance across regions. However, empirical evidence for this claim has been not very convincing, probably due to low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative human...
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analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures of …
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productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity …
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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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 Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … to identify the "knowledge regions" in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build …
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Are there differentials in children's competence levels by their self-regulation and do they imply differences in competence development? We investigate the relationship between preschoolers' self-regulation and their mathematical competence and its development using data from the German...
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