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residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …
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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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genetically disadvantaged students complete college. This increase is underpinned by gains in health, language ability, patience …
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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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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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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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of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level …
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Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets...
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In this paper we conduct a quantitative analysis of a number of stylized educational loan systems. We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model of a closed economy with a competitive firm sector and a government that levies taxes and administers educational loans. Individuals are...
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