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We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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, there is one essential factor that affects family size throughout the world. This is education. School has decreased … and scarcely without modernization, except for the school itself. Education, as we know it, preceded industrialization and … intrusive urbanization in Europe too. It was not until very late (1870) that attempts at introducing compulsory education were …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … from workers to capitalists. Further, the overall effect of an increase in education depends on the actual characteristics …
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