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Socio-religious Disparity in Educational Achievements: A District Level study in West Bengal
Hati, Koushik Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Education is a powerful catalyst for the change of a society and plays a crucial role in the development of a nation. In recent years, education has been included as a key component of Human Development Index. As a result, social and regional disparities in educational achievement drag back...
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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier
Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based … that there exists a constant level of skilled and unskilled human capital in the imitation-only and innovation-only regimes …. In the imitation-innovation regime stock of skilled human capital rises whereas that of unskilled human capital falls in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109879
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Razvoj privrede zasnovan na ulaganjima u ljudske resurse i stranim investicijama
Zubovic, Jovan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
human resources, and continues with definition of knowledge life cycles and the process of human resources management. The … knowledge based economy with recommendations on how to use current stage in virtual cycle in which Serbia is now in order to …
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Intangible training capital and productivity in Europe
O’Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper employs industry data, derived from linking the EU LFS to productivity accounts from EU KLEMS, to examine workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible investments by firms and cumulated to stocks so their...
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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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Apprenticeships and Job Tenure: A Competing Risks Model with Time-varying Covariates
Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
The paper examines the extent of apprenticeships in the first job for a cohort of young men entering the labour market at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is estimated. The data set used is the National Child...
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Convergence in Growth Rates: The Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation
Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
We consider the role of capital mobility and international taxation in explaining the observed diversity in long-term income growth rates. Under perfect capital mobility, international differences in taxes will not matter for total growth differentials. Policy differences have a role to play in...
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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women – the years spanning the...
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