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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping … generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience … and education, both of them evolve endogenously over time. We calibrate this model on the post-war period and run …
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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We … also identify equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms. Finally, we show that the incentives to subsidy education …
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …
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We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if … other people receiving education and increases the quasi rents on their own human capital. It is surprising that this rather …
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difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …
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This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …
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