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| Title: | | Are there social returns to both firm-level and regional human capital? Evidence from German social security data  |
| Authors: | | Braakmann, Nils |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics 143 |
| Abstract: | | This paper provides first evidence on the social returns to education from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions incorporating measures of regional and firm-level human capital while controlling for various types of unobserved heterogeneity, demand shocks, regional physical capital and other regional and firm-level confounders. The results suggest negligibly small external returns to the firm-level shares of high-skilled workers. On the regional level, the results show no support for external returns to education, except for skilled workers. |
| Subjects: | | Human capital externalities social returns to education error-component model |
| JEL: | | D62 J24 J31 R11 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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