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A Note on Schooling in Development Accounting

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...

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The Neighborhood or the Region? Untangling the density-productivity relationship using geocoded data

Larsson, Johan P. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

I analyze the effects of sub-city level density of economic activity on worker productivity. Using a geocoded dataset on employment and wages in the city areas of Sweden, the analysis is based on squares representing “neighborhoods” (0.0625 km2), “districts” (1 km2), and...

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Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction

Barmby, Tim; Bryson, Alex; Eberth, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the...

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EFFECTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL ON THE GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF SWEDISH BUSINESSES

Backman, Mikaela; Gabe, Todd; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper examines the effects of human capital on the growth and survival of a large sample of Swedish businesses. Human capital is represented by conventional measures of the educational attainment and experience of an establishment’s workers, and skills-based measures of the types of...

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Internal and External Knowledge Sources of New Export Products

Johansson, Börje; Warda, Peter - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This study examines how firms’ internal and external knowledge sources affect the introduction of new export products …’ export performance is influenced by internal knowledge, and the knowledge potential in the local and regional environment. In … the present study the knowledge milieu of the exporting firm is the local and regional knowledge potential that is …

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Scale and Scope - human capital and the structure of regional export flows

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Sara - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity …

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