Previous studies have found a strong positive correlation between human capital, measured as the share of the adult population with a college degree, and population growth in metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in the U.S. In this paper, I corroborate that the human capital-growth connection is...

According to Crescezni and Rodriguez-Pose (2008) backward European regions should follow balanced strategies in which infrastructure development is coordinated with policies aimed at developing human capital and the innovative potential of regions. In order to asses their postulates we extend...

Firms reduce the marginal cost of communicating technical knowledge by “formalizing” it in standards, dominant designs or other ways. But this only pays when new technology is sufficiently developed. In a simple model with endogenous communication costs, two equilibria emerge. With...

Did nineteenth century technology reduce demand for skilled workers in contrast to modern technology? I obtain direct evidence on human capital investments and the returns to skill by using micro-data on individual weavers and an engineering production function. Weavers learned substantially on...

This note analyzes an overlapping generations model including the worst forms of child labour based on Dessy and Pallage's (2005) study. We demonstrate the human capital dynamics and show the possibility of the emergences of a poverty trap given the worst forms of child labour, the high...

<b>RESUMEN:</b><br> <br> La literatura empírica reciente muestra que el capital humano afecta positivamente al crecimiento de la productividad. Sin embargo, el debate continúa sobre la magnitud de esos efectos en diferentes territorios. En este trabajo se evalúa la contribución del capital humano a la...

This article examines the determinants of households? migration from rural to urban areas in Cameroon, with the special emphasis on the role of income gap. The study uses micro-economic data of ECAM II for two consecutive years. Giving that migrants are not random part of population, the issue...

Government’s involvement in the formation of human capital, public schooling in particular, has been amply criticized by a number of authors. It is nevertheless true that individuals can enhance their productivity to some degree if they accumulate human capital. But the process of human...

At European Union (EU) level, competitiveness has become a topic of key importance in the context of the significant increase in the gap with its main competitors: U.S., Japan, due mainly to lower performance in areas such as education and training (CVT), research - development and innovation -...

Shows how economic theories based on parental self-interest may explain parental discrimination against daughters relative to sons. However, such theories often need to be adjusted (or even discarded) to allow for altruism of parents towards their children, and to take account of cultural...