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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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FDI, Education, and Economic Growth: Quality Matters!
Wang, Miao; Wang, Miao; Wong, M. C. Sunny - 2011
developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal … quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International … between inward FDI and schooling still exists, but the threshold level of schooling in our study is lower than the threshold …
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14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This half semester class presents an...
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Essays in the economics of education
Abington, Casey - 2010
Doctor of Philosophy
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Human Capital, Age Structure and Growth Fluctuations
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Mishra, Tapas - 2011
This article assesses the empirical relationship between per capita income growth fluctuations and the age-structured human capital variations across four groups of geographically clustered developed and developing countries from spatial perspective. We estimate a spatial Vector Autoregressive...
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Three essays on adaptive learning, institutions and multiple equilibria
Steiger, Laura Christina - 2009
x, 132 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
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Education and Entrepreneurship in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-analysis
Sluis, J. vander; Praag, C.M. van; Vijverberg, W. - 2004
This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … to a marginal year of schooling in terms of the income it generates is 6.1 percent in the U.S.A. Fourth, the effect of … greatly benefit from the technical sophistication used to estimate the returns to schooling for employees by means of twins …
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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, as expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444153
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Technology Adoption and Schooling: Amplifier Income Effects of Policies Across Countries
Restuccia, Diego - 1998
adoption and schooling decisions, and show that in this environment the required productivity/distortion differences are much … smaller. The schooling and technology adoption features of the model amplify the effects of productivity … disparity than a standard model. Moreover, I find that it is the interaction between the technology adoption and schooling …
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