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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 …

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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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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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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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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...

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Convergence in Growth Rates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation

Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

We provide an exploratory quantitive analysis of the role of capital mobility and international taxation in explaining the observed cross-country diversity in the long-run rates of growth of per capita and total incomes as well as the population growth rates. Corroborative evidence is found for...

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An Enquiry into the Sluggish Growth of Workers’ Remittance Determinants in Bangladesh

Kundu, Nobinkhor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Workers’ remittance for economic growth is important variable, which is the second leading amount of capital inflows in Bangladesh. Revenues from workers’ remittance in the country exceed various types of foreign exchange inflow, particularly Foreign Direct Investment...

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Capital Humano y Crecimiento Económico en México (1970-2000). Human Capital and Economic Growth in Mexico.

Bautista, Alejandro Diaz; Dominguez, Mauro Diaz - EconWPA - 2004

En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...

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IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration

Jones, Garett - EconWPA - 2005

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one- half of income differences across countries can be explained by a single factor: The steady-state effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on worker productivity. These differences in cognitive...

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