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knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a …
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well as the knowledge of new inventors affect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimated the persistence of knowledge in the inventor networks of nine … German regions using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates, we analyzed how the size and …
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We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
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Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the …
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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
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This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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