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Diversity of human capital and regional growth

Noseleit, Florian; Söllner, Rene - 2010

diversification encourage knowledge spillover and therefore promote regional growth mainly focused on the diversity of the regional … industry structure and thus disregards that knowledge transmission merely occurs between individuals. This was already … people in close geographical distance for innovation. Nevertheless, the existing literature typically relies on the regional …

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Estimating regional differences in returns to education when schooling and location are determined endogenously

Suhonen, Tuomo; Pehkonen, Jaakko; Tervo, Hannu - 2010

is no research knowledge available on the development of regional demands. This paper attempts to fill this gap by …

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Voluntary Brain Waste and the Reservation Wage of Migrants. Evidence from Austria and Three CEE Countries

Nowotny, Klaus - 2012

Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...

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Decomposing the rural-urban differential in student achievement in Colombia using PISA microdata

Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raul; Duque, Juan Carlos - 2012

Although there are hundreds of works using PISA microdata to analyse the determinants of educational outcomes, only a few of them have considered the relevance of geography. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of differences in educational outcomes between students in rural and urban...

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Regional development and creativity

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012

The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...

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

Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattsø, Jørn; Carlsen, Fredrik - 2012

Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...

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Employment sector and pay gaps: genetic and environmental influences

Maczulskij, Terhi - 2012

This paper examines the role of genetic factors and shared environment in explaining the choice of working in the public sector and public-private sector pay gaps. The analyses are done using data for Finnish twins that span the period from 1990 to 2004. The data are based on two sources. The...

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Heterogeneous Firms and Substitution by Tasks: the Productivity Effect of Migrants

Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - 2012

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...

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An agent-based simulation of the swiss labour market: An alternative for policy evaluation

Baruffini, Moreno - 2013

Active labour market policies (ALMPs), which are primarily addressed to integrate (or reintegrate) into the labour market those who are on the edge of unemployment, are generally analysed in the context of a macroeconomic approach or within a micro-econometric model. A critique of the usual...

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Migration and work: the cohesive role of vocational training policies

Ragazzi, Elena; Sella, Lisa - 2013

Migration and work are truly connected notions, both because one major cause of migration is the search of better working conditions, and because work is a fundamental vehicle of social cohesion, especially for the migrants. Hence, the European social model strongly connects social cohesion and...

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