The effects of intergenerational income mobility and per pupil education spending on economic growth
Cogent Economics & FinanceIntergenerational income mobility is often studied in the context of inequality, but it also plays a critical role in long-term economic development.
Joseph A. Mauro
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Growing Leaders: Innovations in the Competence Development System of Estonian Top Civil Service [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to analyse the experiences of creation, implementation and development of the competency framework of the Estonian top civil service and the possibilities of contributing to the attainment of the state’s strategic goals through ...
Eve LIMBACH-PIRN
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Determinants of profitability of the IT industry in Croatia
Ekonomski VjesnikPurpose: Two research questions are posed in the paper that investigate and analyze the relationship between profitability and microeconomic determinants of business activity classified under J62 in the Republic of Croatia on a sample of 280 IT firms in ...
Ivo Mijoč
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Sectorial structure, qualitative characteristics and guidelines of labour mobility in the European Union. [PDF]
In the context of the process of construction of a single labour market in the Economic Union, one of the greatest problems is the existence of certain levels of structural unemployment.
Carlos Iglesias Fernández +2 more
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Reelection Threshold Contracts in Politics [PDF]
, 2001 When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social welfare can be improved by threshold contracts.
Gersbach, Hans, Liessem, Verena
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? [PDF]
Th is paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated withcognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuringrisk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sampleof ...
Dohmen Thomas +3 more
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Sewage analyses for antibiotic resistance within fecal E. coli isolates : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1981 This investigation was undertaken to explore possible surveillance methods which might be applied in surveys of the incidence of acquired antibiotic resistance in fecal bacteria being shed by an urban population; the Palmerston North City sewage system ...
Ibrahim, Pazilah
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from Taiwanese Adoptions [PDF]
This paper examines the causal effect of parental schooling on children’s schooling using a large sample of adoptees from Taiwan. Using birth-parents’ education to help control for selective placement of children with adoptive parents, we find that ...
Hammitt, James +2 more
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A Proposal to Improve Our Understanding of Entrepreneurship Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [PDF]
This paper aims to evidence how relatively marginal changes in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics survey, particularly on the measurement of returns to entrepreneurship - both financial and human capital - can yield sizeable benefits for research and ...
Camilo Mondragón-Vélez +1 more
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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility [PDF]
We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have ...
Andrew Leigh, Dan Andrews
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