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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...

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The Effects of Graduating from High School in a Recession : College Investments, Skill Formation, and Labor-Market Outcomes

Hampf, Franziska - 2020

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...

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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success

Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021

of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level …

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … cross-language variations in the presence of the future tense, grammatical gender, and politeness distinctions. Moreover …, the research suggests that while language structures have largely reflected the coding of past human experience and in …

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Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments

Arold, Benjamin W.; Hufe, Paul; Stöckli, Marc - 2022

genetically disadvantaged students complete college. This increase is underpinned by gains in health, language ability, patience …

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Quantifying the Macroeconomic Impact of COVID-19-Related School Closures Through the Human Capital Channel

De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023

This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel. Productivity losses build up over time and are estimated...

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Climate Changes Affect Human Capital

Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...

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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity

Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022

This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...

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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015

The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...

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Home Broadband and Human Capital Formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...

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