scholarly journals How Large Are Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 9-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daron Acemoglu ◽  
Joshua Angrist
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Compulsory Schooling ◽  
Human Capital Externalities

Human Capital and Knowledge-Intensive Industries Location: Evidence from Soviet Legacy in Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 736-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Human Capital Externalities ◽  
Soviet Legacy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Capital Intensive

Do human capital endowments trump location for knowledge-intensive industries? This article takes advantage of a natural experiment created by the end of the Soviet planned economy in 1991, which had geographically distributed R&D manpower according to planned needs as opposed to a distribution determined by a market economy. It examines the extent to which the planned economy created a path-dependence in the location of post-Soviet human-capital intensive production. The study finds that regions with more R&D personnel in 1991 did better in the development of modern market-oriented knowledge-intensive business services, like engineering and IT. Several explanations are offered for this path-dependence, with an emphasis on human capital externalities being the most plausible.

scholarly journals Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Heuermann ◽  
Benedikt Halfdanarson ◽  
Jens Suedekum
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Urban Wage Premium ◽  
Human Capital Externalities
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