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We estimate the costs of occupational mobility using a novel approach that relies on aggregate flows of workers across occupations rather than on wage data. The theoretical underpinnings for this approach are derived from a model of occupation choice that delivers a gravity equation linking...
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We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with...
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This study compares French and German manufacturing price levels in 2007 and investigates in both countries over the 1991-2010 period value added price growth rates in manufacturing and services. Using the ICOP methodology and the data from the Eurostat production surveys, we calculate...
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La posibilidad de materializar por medio de la relación Universidad, empresa y Estado (UEE), una nueva hoja de ruta dirigida a la creación y oportunidades de empleo en ciencia e investigación, es la razón central que contempla este escrito. Las exigencias que sobrevienen para la...
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Este trabajo analiza el efecto que tiene el nivel educativo del individuo, desde el punto de vista de la teoría de la señalización, sobre el proceso de búsqueda de empleo y la duración del desempleo. Utilizando los datos del II trimestre del año 2 010 de la Gran Encuesta Integrada de...
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Este documento analiza cómo ha sido la interacción entre la política educativa y las estrategiasde desarrollo en Colombia, a lo largo del siglo XX. Se presenta una revisión del estadoactual de la educación en Colombia, tanto a nivel de educación básica y media, como de laeducación...
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This paper provides evidence of positive externalities in human capital that help to explain divergences in development …
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This paper compares partial and general equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving...
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This paper posits a notion of the value of an individual's human capital and the associated return on human capital. These concepts are examined using U.S. data on male earnings and financial asset returns. We decompose the value of human capital into a bond, a stock and a residual value...
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flatter in poor countries than in rich countries. Motivated by this fact, we conduct a development accounting exercise that … experience are interpreted in such a development accounting framework - and are therefore accounted for as part of human capital …
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