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Labor Market Pooling and Human Capital Investment Decisions [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Labor market pooling is considered one of the advantages of agglomerations. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and firms. Firms produce with different technologies requiring diverse skills.
Amend, Elke, Herbst, Patrick
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The Effect of Urbanization on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence From China
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 This paper investigates the impact and non-linear effects of urbanization on health care expenditure in China. The results indicate that urbanization in both Eastern and Central regions can significantly increase health care expenditure.
Qi Shao, Ran Tao, Magda Mihaela Luca
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Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Abstract We study human capital accumulation in the presence of labor search frictions. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable.
Kaas, Leo, Zink, Stefan
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Wage growth due to human capital accumulation and job search: a comparison between the United States and Germany [PDF]
, 2007 This paper compares the sources of wage growth of young male workers in two countries with very different labor market institutions, the United States and Germany.
Schönberg, Uta, Schönberg, U.
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Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions.
Nie, Jun, Fang, Lei
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Human Capital and Economic Growth in Spain, 1850-2000 [PDF]
, 2009 We investigate human capital accumulation in Spain using alternative approaches based on the concept of ‘labor quality’ and on the idea of education. We, then, assess the effect of human capital accumulation on labor productivity growth and discuss the ...
Leandro Prados de la Escosura +3 more
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Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Labor Demand: A Story of Signaling and Matching [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 In contrast to employee qualifications, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' qualifications positively affect their income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from using their qualification as a signal during the process of recruiting employees. This is assumed to follow a process of matching equals among equals.
Bublitz, Elisabeth +3 more
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Identifying Human Capital Externality: Evidence from China
Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 2016 :: Using data from two well-known individual surveys in China, we estimate human capital externality. We find a positive and statistically significant effect of city-level human capital on individual earnings.
Yunling Liang, Zhiqiang Liu, Haizheng Li
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Human Capital, Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998 This paper investigates whether human capital affects the productivity and labor allocation of rural households in four districts of Pakistan. We find that households with better educated males earn higher off-farm income and divert labor resources away from farm activities toward non-farm work.
Fafchamps, Marcel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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The effects of foreign product demand-labor transfer nexus on human capital investment in China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Using about 73,000 individuals’ data in China, this research, for the first time, analyzes the impact of labor transfer (LT) caused by foreign product demand (FPD) on human capital investment.
Hui Hu +3 more
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