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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

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A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults

Stenberg, Anders - 2022

Evaluations of adults in formal education (AE) are typically based on earnings measured 5-10 years after program enrollment. This paper estimates returns up to 24 years after enrollment, and explore results for 15 cohorts of first-time registered in AE in Sweden 1994-2008 with at least a 10-year...

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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Flexibility at a Cost : Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?

Stenberg, Anders - 2015

Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal schooling for adults. However, returns on such investments are uncertain and the foregone earnings...

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The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers

Moretti, Enrico - 2019

which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government … funding for R&D – and defense-related R&D in particular – on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity … significant productivity gains …

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Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity : The State of the Art

Ugur, Mehmet - 2020

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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What Happens When Econometrics and Psychometrics Collide? An Example Using the PISA Data

Jerrim, John Peter - 2017

International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning these datasets are misunderstood by applied researchers, who sometimes fail to take their complex...

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Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications

Battistin, Erich - 2012

We provide a number of contributions of policy, practical and methodological interest to the study of the returns to educational qualifications in the presence of misreporting. First, we provide the first reliable estimates of a highly policy relevant parameter for the UK, namely the return from...

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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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