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Human Capital and Population Growth in Non-Metropolitan U.S. Counties: The Importance of College Student Migration

Winters, John V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

population with a college degree, is a strong predictor of future population growth. This paper examines this relationship for U …

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Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission

Cortés, Darwin; Friebel, Guido; Maldonado, Darío - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop-out and engage in criminal activities. We build on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form...

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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-Country Investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan - In: Industry and Innovation 17 (2010) 3, pp. 241-262

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital, which consists of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on innovation...

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Endogenous wage determinants and returns to education in Spain

Ruiz, Antonio Caparrós; Gómez, Lucía Navarro; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 31 (2010) July, pp. 410-425

Purpose – One of the major contributions of the literature on human capital has been to demonstrate the role of schooling as a determinant of wages. However, the exact size of the effect on wages and how it should be estimated remain a source of both theoretical and empirical debate. This...

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Health, education, and economic growth in East Asia

Li, Hongyi; Liang, Huang - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 3 (2010) 2, pp. 110-131

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the sources of economic growth based on an augmented … comparison purposes. Findings – The impact of the stock of health and education on economic growth is statistically significant … for both the whole sample and sub-sample period. However, the impact of investment in education on economic growth is a …

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DIFFICULTIES IN THE QUANTIFICATION OF HUMAN CAPITAL

Zgreabăn, Irina; Gherghina, Rodica; Postole, Anca Mirela - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 12(541)(supplement) (2009) 12(541)(supplement), pp. 194-200

In our opinion, the quantification of human capital is a complex process faced with difficulties. The research starts with the standard measure of human capital – the number of years of schooling – and elaborates a brief analysis of the shortcomings of its quantification. Among these, there...

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Government regulation of religion and investments in human and physical capital: Religion versus secularism

Autiero, Giuseppina; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) January, pp. 119-135

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal link between government regulation of religion and the choice of investing in human and physical capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an analytical model with a government setting the output quota to transfer to...

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Risks in the labor market and social insurance preferences: Germany and the USA

Duman, Anil - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) January, pp. 150-164

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to look at the link between labor market risks and social insurance demands by taking occupational unemployment rates, and specificity of skills into account. Design/methodology/approach – Occupational unemployment rate is treated as an...

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Is human capital relevant in attracting innovative FDI to China?

Heyuan, Wei; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010

The impact of human capital on foreign direct investment (FDI) has been assessed in an essentially descriptive manner. In general, most quantitative studies focus on the macroeconomic level, that is, the level of countries. Microeconomic studies, with firms as the unit of analysis, are scarce...

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The impact of family size on children’s school attendance in the Philippines

Bansagan, Kezia C.; Panganiban, Hazel Joyce C. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 45 (2008) 2, pp. 205-234

Much empirical work has been done to determine the effects of family size on the education of children. Using a sample from the October 2006 Labor Force Survey, this paper attempts to determine the impact of family size on children’s education as measured by school attendance while considering...

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