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Maternity leave and its consequences for subsequent careers in Germany

Franz, Nele - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2014

Subject of this paper is the investigation of wage developments of women interrupting their careers for giving birth tochildren in comparison to men's wages not facing a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use...

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The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

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Regional development and creativity

Marrocu, E.; Paci, R. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional …, bohemians and non creative graduates) which are simultaneously included in a spatial model as determinants of regional growth … measured by labour productivity. After extending the analysis to control for other relevant factors which may affect regional …

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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 …

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Assessment of Human Capital at Sub-Regional Level and Role of Public Sector Expenditures on Its Accumulation and Spatial Variations : A District Level Case Study of Punjab, Pakista...

Ullah, Sameeh; Mustafa, Balaaj Ahmad; Mohey-ud-din, Ghulam - 2022

the empirical studies focusing international and regional levels. However, the reporting and assessment of human capital … on the sub-regional (sub-national) levels is still not commonly practiced as it is being implied on international and …/or regional levels. This study is an attempt to develop a multidimensional and composite framework to ascertain the human capital …

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Children and Parents Time Use : Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2021

/networking at young age, which can enhance personal interaction skills. We provide new empirical evidence for three European …

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Smart Café Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area

Fu, Shihe - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2005

Existing studies have explored either only one or two of the mechanisms that human capital externalities percolate at only macrogeographic levels. This paper, by using the 1990 Massachusetts census data, tests four mechanisms at the microgeographic levels in the Boston metropolitan area labor...

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Labor market effects of sports and exercise: Evidence from Canadian panel data

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...

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