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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?

Werding, Martin - 2008

Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...

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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm

Oshima, Atsushi; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - 2008

We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...

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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008

harmful only in a conservative milieu. We also exploit information on absenteeism of pupils from school to separate provision …

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Optimal taxation of risky human capital

Jacobs, Bas; Schindler, Dirk; Yang, Hongyan - 2009

linear labor tax rate and optimal linear education subsidies. The optimal income tax trades off social insurance against … incentives to work and to invest in human capital. Education subsidies are not used for social insurance, but are only targeted … at off-setting the distortions of the labor tax and internalizing a fiscal externality. Both optimal education subsidies …

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Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants

Brenner, Jan - 2007

education which likely hampers the transferability of foreign human capital. To assess this effect, we compare the job mismatch …

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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Solow meets market socialism: regional convergence of output per worker in China

Gundlach, Erich - 1996

Regional output per worker has converged in China in the era of market socialism since 1978. The estimated speed of convergence is about 2 percent. This speed of convergence can be explained by an open economy neoclassical growth model in the tradition of Robert Solow. My empirical results show...

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Relative human capital endowments: estimates for selected countries and implications for international capital flows

Gundlach, Erich - 1992

Despite large rate of return differentials implied by persistent income differentials, relatively little capital flows to poor countries. The rate of return differentials are substantially reduced, however, if different human capital endowments are taken into account, as is shown for a limited...

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Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Wößmann, Ludger - 1998

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have...

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Makroökonomische Stabilisierung und Wirtschaftswachstum in Lateinamerika: was bringt die Debatte über den Washington-Konsens?

Schweickert, Rainer; Thiele, Rainer - 2004

In dieser Untersuchung wird der Frage nachgegangen, was die Konsensdebatte zur Erklärung von Entwicklungsunterschieden zwischen lateinamerikanischen und asiatischen Schwellenländern beitragen kann. Es lassen sich bei allen kritischen Politikfeldern wesentliche Unterschiede feststellen. Ein...

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