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Quantile Estimates for Social Returns to Education in Turkey: 2006-2009
Bakis, Ozan; Davutyan, Nurhan; levent, haluk; polat, sezgin - Galatasaray Üniversitesi İktisadi Araştırmalar … - 2013
Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with regional data we estimate both private and external returns to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840318
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Crescita economica, conoscenza e capitale umano. Le teorie e i modelli di crescita endogena di Paul Romer e Robert Lucas
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
account of technological change, the accumulation of knowledge and externalities. At the same time they highlight the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111565
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Human Capital Externalities: A Sectoral-Regional Application for Spain.
Serrano, Lorenzo - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2003
Human capital externalities have been rejected recently in a number of papers, focused mainly on the US experience …. However, these papers only contemplate the possibility of aggregate externalities within politically defined boundaries …, states or cities. Given the nature of human capital externalities, their size and very existence should depend on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121317
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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers : a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019
This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317611
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Education and social returns an optimal policy
Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
account of social benefits of education. Our short note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human … capital, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external … marginal benefits of a unit of human capital. In other words, we study the problem of human capital externalities which comes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111594
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Education private and social returns an optimal taxation policy
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
account the social benefits of education. Our note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human capital …, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external marginal … benefits of a unit of human capital. In other words, we study the problem of human capital externalities which comes from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113456
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264226
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2009
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions andinterregional migration are … reduceswages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by auniform unemployment compensation, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312101
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2009
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902056