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Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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I study the effect of refugees' protection status on labor market outcomes focusing on a recent cohort of Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering Germany between 2013 and 2016. My empirical analysis exploits a sudden and unpredictable change in the assessment of the Federal Agency responsible for...
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of schoolattending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents'...
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The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … whose intensities are dependent on the similarity of knowledge background of the interacting individuals: First, the …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …
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The present paper analyses the perception of innovation of individuals in Spain and the factors associated with it … innovation perception, gender, age, educational level, and other socioeconomic and technical variables. The aim of this paper is … to determine the perception of innovation, in its different aspects, of Spanish people. To this end, several ordered …
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managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others …
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...
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