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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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4579
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Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
Manuel
Artís
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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (2), 435-447)
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O18, O47, R23
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4578
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Eric
Bartelsman
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334)
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E02, L11, L16, L2, L25, O4, O57
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4577
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies ...
(published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415)
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L26, J16, H11, O16, O17, P43
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4576
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512)
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H4, I2, O4, N16
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4575
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321)
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H4, I2, J3, J61, O1, O4
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4574
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George
W.
Hammond
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18)
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E62, H7, R11
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4572
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Sarmistha
Pal
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Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794)
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I20, I30, O15, P36
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4571
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Maarten
C.M.
Vendrik
Christiane
Schwieren
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Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping ...
(published in Journal of Economics, 2010, 99 (2), 141-171)
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J7, M51
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4570
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Roland
Benabou
Jean
Tirole
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent ...
(published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.)
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D64, D78, H41, L31
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4569
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Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
Kyung-Seong
Jeon
Daver
C.
Kahvecioglu
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New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, ...
(published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6 )
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J24, J48
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13080Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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