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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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Crecimiento y Convergencia Regional en Mexico: 1970-1995
Cabrera-Castellanos, Luis F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper studies absolute and conditional convergence (alfa and beta-convergence too,) in Mexico over the period 1970-1995. I use the neoclassical growth model and a cross-section data for empirics. I find evidence of conditional convergence (near at traditional 2% rate) for full period but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790376
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126012
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118848
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Mobile applications and knowledge advancements in e-business
Lee, In (contributor) - 2013
"This book covers emerging e-business theories, architectures, and technologies that are emphasized to stimulate and disseminate cutting-edge information into research and business communities in a timely fashion"--Provided by publisher.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011727494