Showing 181 - 190 of 201
An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of educated workers in the domestic labor market. Where there is a sticky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794474
An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of educated workers in the domestic labor market. Where there is a sticky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018199
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010106003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008899700
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008931396
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008997386
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008877407
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008878925
This paper extends an intergenerational context to the prospect of upward mobility hypothesis, showing that the poor majority in democracies may not support massive redistribution for the sake of their children’s educational attainment and upward mobility. We develop an overlapping generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079271
The paper shows that if an individual's cost of human capital accumulation depends on his parents' human capital and there exists a "raw labor" sector of production, individuals with low parental human capital may devote little effort in study and become unskilled workers. Further, if an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084254