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Human Capital and French Macroeconomic Growth in the Long Run.
Diebolt, Claude; Trabelsi, Jamel - Association Française de Cliométrie - AFC - 2008
Much of the economic growth literature has focused on the contribution of human capital to national development. Two assumptions have remained largely unexamined: (I) economic stability results from economic growth, and (II) investments in human capital result in economic growth (ceteris...
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Escaping low pay: do male labour market entrants stand a chance?
Pavlopoulos, Dimitris; Fouarge, Didier - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2008
Purpose { This paper investigates the extent and the human-capital de- terminants of low-wage mobility for labour … escape from low pay mainly by developing ¯rm-speci¯c skills. In Germany, involvement in formal vocational training and the … low-wage employment have emerged as major challenges facing young labour market entrants. While most empirical studies …
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The Pill and the College Attainment of American Women and Men
Hock, Heinrich - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2007
This paper considers the educational consequences of the increased ability of young women to delay childbearing as a result of the birth control pill. In order to identify the effects of the pill, I utilize quasi-experimental variation in U.S. state laws governing access to contraception among...
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Formal Training, On-the-Job Training and the Allocation of Time
Einarsson, T.; Marquis, M.H. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 1996
A macroeconomic model is developed that incorporates a technology for on-the-job training into the endogenous growth model of Lucas (1988) and Uzawa (1965) in a manner that is consistent with the human capital explanations of certain robust features of wage profiles from the US economy. The...
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"Brain Drain Competition" Policies in Europe: a Survey
Giannoccolo, Pierpaolo - Dipartimento di Statistica, Università degli Studi di … - 2005
implemented in Europe. The key strategies and mechanisms found are: making the academic system more open and flexible; improving …
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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displace- ment. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of dis- placed women with those of women una®ected by job loss after establish- ing the...
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THE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE AND THE IT&C
DUMITRU, Cornelia - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 23 (2006) 2(32), pp. 156-160
The present paper is a brief introduction into the new challenges posed to language competencies from the perspective of information and communication technologies and of the knowledge society. It emphasises the importance of a common yet multilingual world wide web with shared understanding of...
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The Unexplored Effect of Skills and Technology on Firms' Performance
Sedita, Silvia Rita - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004
, focusing on learning capacities, and particularly on human skills, often leads to forget or ignore industry effects, such as … Danish IDA (Integrated Database for Labour Market Research). A sample of firms belonging to the manufacturing industry is …
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A Modest Proposal for Inclusion of Women's Household Human Capital Production in Analysis of Structural Transformation
Cloud, Kathleen; Garrett, Nancy - In: Feminist Economics 3 (1997) 1, pp. 151-177
Neoclassical economists posit a set of stylized facts which mark the structural transformation of national economies. Yet these facts, when disaggregated by gender, exhibit puzzling anomalies. For the 132 countries in our sample, female rates of economic activity are much lower than men's, and...
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Educational Mismatches and Earnings: Extensions of Occupational Mobility Theory and Evidence of Human Capital Depreciation
Rubb, Stephen - In: Education Economics 14 (2006) 2, pp. 135-154
Using a human capital theory framework, this study examines the impact of educational mismatches on earnings and occupational mobility. Occupational mobility theory suggests that overeducated workers observe greater upward occupational mobility and undereducated workers observe lower upward...
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