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Intangible Capital and Productivity Growth in Canada

Baldwin, John R. - 2012

This paper develops a measure of intangible capital and examines the contribution of intangibles to labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector. It applies the methodology developed by Corrado et al. (2005, 2009) for the United States. The paper finds that investment in...

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Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market : A Quantitative Estimate

Teignier, Marc - 2014

This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and labor force participation on aggregate productivity and income per capita. We simulate an occupational choice model with heterogeneous agents in entrepreneurial ability, where agents choose to be workers,...

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Size-dependent gender gaps in entrepreneurship : the case of Chile

Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-19

and that this gap takes its largest value for managers with tertiary education or more. In terms of their number of …

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Progressive Income Tax and Comparative Advantage in Trade

Cai, Jie; Stoyanov, Andrey - 2021

We show in the world trade data that countries with more progressive personal income tax system are less likely to have comparative advantage in industris that employ a greater share of high-income occupations, such as high tech and professional service sectors. Moreover, when countries increase...

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Learning by Doing and Ben-Porath : Life-cycle Predictions and Policy Implications

Blandin, Adam - 2021

Many government policies affect incentives to acquire human capital. Two workhorse models dominate the literature analyzing these policies: Learning by Doing (LBD) and Ben-Porath (BP). This paper makes two novel findings related to these models. First, LBD and BP generate different predictions...

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The labor market in Ukraine : rebuild better

Anastasia, Giacomo; Boeri, Tito; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2022

remedial education to the pupils having lost years of education, and offering retraining to job losers still far from …

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Progressive Income Tax and Comparative Advantage in Trade

Cai, Jie; Stoyanov, Andrey - 2021

We show in the world trade data that countries with more progressive personal income tax system are less likely to have comparative advantage in industries that employ a greater share of high-income occupations, such as high-tech industries and professional services. Moreover, when countries...

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Best time for college? A tale of two endowments

Yang, Guanyi - 2021

Rather than completing all schooling consecutively before entering the labor force, people often delay college start and engage in labor market activities between periods of college enrollment. To examine the welfare consequence of such intermittent college, I incorporate a flexible age-by-age...

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The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …

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The complementary effect of organizational practices and workers' level of education

Pusterla, Filippo - 2020

workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …

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