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-education group is expected to have a depressing effect on the real wage rate of that group. To test this prediction empirically, this … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows …
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thousands of people 15 years or over. The Human capital is defined by the Employment in Technology and Knowledge …
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...
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This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...
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