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Geography of skills and global inequality
Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education and mobility decisions, population growth, and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910583
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357980
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360911
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366230
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Teenage pregnancies and birth in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373670
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Optimal education policy and human capital accumulation in the context of brain drain
Djajić, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910685
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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach
Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the relationship between selective emigration and human capital accumulation in a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288247
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Fertility effects of child benefits
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2016
benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied … substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … positive fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525918
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Fertility effects of child benefits
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017
benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647666
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Fertility effects of child benefits
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017
benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622207