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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012

and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of population density. We offer an analysis based on the whole working …

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Return to skills and urban size : evidence from the skill requirements of Hungarian firms

Czaller, László; Hermann, Zoltán - 2022

correct for measurement errors in skills, and to deal with the endogeneity of agglomeration. Our results are robust to …

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Measuring Human Capital Divergence in a Growing Economy

Broxterman, Daniel - 2019

The stylized fact that the fraction of workers who are college graduates appears to increase more in US cities where the initial share is larger has attracted significant attention. Furthermore, more educated cities appear to grow faster. These two trends could portend the divergence of cities...

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Returns to education in four transition countries: Quantile regression approach

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Murphy, Philip D. - 2010

allowing for the endogeneity of schooling, using the control function approach proposed by Lee (2007). Using household data … earnings distribution. It is also found that accounting for the endogeneity of schooling leads to a higher rate of return to …

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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

participation on earnings correcting for the endogeneity of training participation. By using a broad list of employee and employer …

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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

participation on earnings correcting for the endogeneity of training participation. By using a broad list of employee and employer …

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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Human Capital Externalities or Consumption Spillovers? The Effect of High-Skill Human Capital across Low-Skill Labor Markets

Liu, Shimeng - 2019

Previous studies often interpret the positive impact of high-skill human capital on the mean wages of low-skill workers as evidence of human capital externalities. We uncover a distributional wage effect that is difficult to reconcile with standard models of human capital externalities:...

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there is still considerable uncertainty over what types of human capital are most important. Both...

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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