Search Results - subject:"human capital"

Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …

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Violence and human capital investments

Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lvia - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human … capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of …

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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David; … - 2019

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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle

Blundell, Richard W.; Goll, David; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2019

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...

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Parental job loss and child human capital in the short and long run : an analysis of workplace closures 1995-2000

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2019

We study the effects of parental job loss on children's health, educational achievement and labor market success as young adults. Past evidence shows mixed results which could be due to small sample sizes and that workers who suffer job loss are a selected group. Using Swedish register data,...

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An extra year to learn English? : early grade retention and the human capital development of English learners

Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - 2019

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Paying to program? : engineering brand and high-tech wages

Tambe, Prasanna; Ye, Xuan; Cappelli, Peter - 2019

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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David; … - 2019

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The bilateral relationship between human capital investment and innovation in Jordan

Alawamleh, Mohammad; Ismail, Loiy Bani; Aqeel, Diana; … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 8 (2019) 6, pp. 1-17

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between innovation and human capital investment, and to … required to support economic development and achieve a competitive advantage using the country’s human capital: Habilitation … all four pillars, which can encourage innovative human capital and ensure economic development. This paper is important to …

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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...

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