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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021

Using data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...

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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023

Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...

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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD

Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021

We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...

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A classical model of education, growth and distribution

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...

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FDI spillover effects on innovation activities of knowledge-using and knowledge-creating firms : evidence from an emerging economy

Vujanović, Nina; Hoshi, Iraj; Hisarciklilar, Mehtap; … - 2022

among firms that undertake innovation through knowledge use rather than through knowledge generation. …The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely …

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Securing knowledge assets in the early phase of innovation

Herlau, Henrik (contributor); Tetzschner, Helge (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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(Re-)sources of innovation : understanding and comparing innovation dynamics through the lens of communities of practice

Müller, Felix C.; Ibert, Oliver - 2014

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016

In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...

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A structural model of demand for apprentices

Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Jürg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005

It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...

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