Social and economic returns to college education in the United States

M Hout - Annual review of sociology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as
economic success, health, family stability, and social connections. Theories of stratification …

[PDF][PDF] 城市规模与包容性就业

陆铭, 高虹, 佐藤宏 - 中国社会科学, 2012 - profluming.com
城市发展的规模经济效应有利于提高劳动力个人的就业概率, 而不像通常人们所认为的那样,
外来移民会挤占原有居民的就业机会. 使用工具变量, 对个人层面的就业决定模型进行估计发现 …

[图书][B] Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century

ML Hilton, JW Pellegrino - 2012 - books.google.com
Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the
common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families …

Understanding the city size wage gap

N Baum-Snow, R Pavan - The Review of economic studies, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we decompose city size wage premia into various components. We base these
decompositions on an estimated on-the-job search model that incorporates latent ability …

The economic consequences of 'brain drain'of the best and brightest: Microeconomic evidence from five countries

J Gibson, D McKenzie - The Economic Journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This article presents results of innovative surveys that tracked academic high achievers from
five countries to wherever they moved in the world to directly measure at the micro level the …

The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth.

CR Belfield, HM Levin, R Rosen - Corporation for national and community …, 2012 - ERIC
It is often said that youth are society's future; individuals need to prepare and nurture them if
they desire that future to be bright and productive. Yet, with the spotlight currently on slow …

Does industrial composition matter for wages? A test of search and bargaining theory

P Beaudry, DA Green, B Sand - Econometrica, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Does switching the composition of jobs between low‐paying and high‐paying industries
have important effects on wages in other sectors? In this paper, we build on search and …

Productivity spillovers across firms through worker mobility

A Stoyanov, N Zubanov - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2012 - aeaweb.org
Using matched firm-worker data from Danish manufacturing, we observe firm-to-firm worker
movements and find that firms that hired workers from more productive firms experience …

Are exporters more likely to introduce product innovations?

M Bratti, G Felice - The World Economy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A firm's export status may improve its ability to introduce product innovations (learning by
exporting). We explore this idea using very rich firm‐level data on Italian manufacturing …

The effects of education on labor market outcomes

J Goldberg, J Smith - Handbook of research in education finance …, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Human capital represents the most valuable asset held by most individuals. Individuals
accumulate human capital through investments in schooling and training. Governments …