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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Human capital accumulation"”.
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ESSAYS ON MIGRATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
… policy and policies regarding the flow of capital across borders are generally enacted separately. Such separation may not be appropriate if there are interactions between immigration and foreign direct investment (FDI). Although much research has focused on the determinants of …
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Essays on matching, marriage and human capital accumulation
This thesis explores the link between human capital accumulation and the functioning of marriage markets. The first chapter studies the effect of marriage market conditions on pre-marital investment. After showing how a change in the sex ratio can alter incentives for investments, I test this …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
… determinants of labor mobility, its impact in human capital accumulation, and the role played by human capital accumulation in the income distribution. Each topic is analyzed using different case studies: the first one is answered using personnel records from a large U.S. firm; the second one …
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Effects of government intervention on human capital accumulation, employment, and migration
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Money Matters? Essays on human capital accumulation, occupational choice and worker productivity.
This PhD thesis consists of three chapters in the topic of applied labour economics. The first chapter investigates the determinants of higher education (HE) participation using new data on university-related subjective expectations elicited from parents and young people in the Innovation Panel of …
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The notion of Human Capital Accumulation as a basis for reform of select employment related tax incentives in Kenya and South Africa
Human capital signifies the idea that skills and capabilities embodied in human beings constitute a form of capital. The collection of human skills and capabilities i.e. human capital, in a country, represents the human capital accumulation in that economy. This human capital accumulation is …
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Essays on Economic *Growth
… takes explicitly into account the link between human capital accumulation and technological progress. Human capital accumulation in the spirit of Lucas (1988) is introduced into the R&D-based model of Romer (1990). The steady-state solution for the decentralized economy follows a …
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Three Essays On Migration, Remittances And Human Capital Formation
… three topics related to migration and human capital formation in developing countries. The first essay attempts to determine the conditions under which exposure to international migration can have a positive effect on economic growth. Numerical simulations show that the lower the …
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Inequality Under Frictional Labour Markets
… the implications of search frictions and human-capital accumulation for the equilibrium distribution of wages when firms invest optimally in match-specific productivity. Optimal investment choice is incorporated in a framework along the lines of (Burdett et al., 2011) and equilibrium is …
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Essays on Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries
<p>Differences in human capital explain approximately one-half of the productivity variation across countries. Therefore, we need to understand drivers of human capital accumulation in order to design successful development policies. My dissertation studies formation and use of human capital with …
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Prison, Race and Space: The Impact of Incarceration on Career Trajectories and Labor Market Outcomes
… over and above those associated with foregone human capital accumulation. I suspect that incarceration contributes to a decline in earnings for minority ex-offenders. At the individual level, I replicate Western's research by estimating fixed-effects models to examine wages across the career …
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Essays on optimal taxation
… of lack of commitment for the optimal labor and capital income tax rates. It finds that it is optimal to converge to zero capital income taxes and positive labor income taxes in the long run. The government will follow the optimal plan as long as its debt is low enough, which implies that the …
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Domestic migration networks in the United States
… structure formed by such ties? At the same time, human capital accumulation is increasingly seen as a, primary driver of regional economic growth. Domestic migration patterns have the potential to illuminate the social and economic connections among cities, while also highlighting economically …
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I won't let you behind". The impact of migration on sending households"
… the importance of migrant transfers for human capital accumulation. In the second part, I identify whether and under which circumstances migration represents a coping strategy to deal with sudden onset climatic shocks, examining the case of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua. The findings …
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CONFLICT
… and Warner (1995). I incorporate a variable of capital destruction in the physical and human capital accumulation equations and derive coherent theoretical and empirical results. The second chapter considers the onset of civil war across all countries and specific subsamples of countries from …
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Skills training and development: Russia in comparative perspective
The acquisition and maintenance of human capital are considered key drivers of productivity and economic growth. However, recent literature shows that in the case of Russia, this relationship is not obvious, which raises a question concerning the nature of human capital accumulation, despite the …
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Rimesse e sviluppo locale nel sistema migratorio del Golfo Persico
… temporary migration flows (trough physical and human capital accumulation) have for the labour exporting countries of the region. Since south-south migration flows are both temporary and skilled, the research points out that return migrants from the GCC can have a significant impact for the …
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Does income distribution affect innovation?
… affecting the aggregate demand composition and human-capital accumulation. Because the market size and the stock of human capital are relatively small in developing countries, income distribution has significant effects on the size of market, the stock of human capital, and therefore innovation.
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