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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach
Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835707
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Environmental Kuznets Curve: An Envelope of Technological Progress
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805882
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How enterprise strategies are related to innovation and productivity change: An empirical study of Japanese manufacturing firms
Fujii, Hidemichi; Kazuma, Edamura; Sumikura, Koichi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
are used to analyze the determinant factors related to improvements in innovation and productivity. Our results indicate … that increasing technology and knowledge through a “black box” process is related to an increase in productivity …. Furthermore, the protection and management of production knowledge and expertise is a valid method of increasing global technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112811
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A Model of Total Factor Productivity Built on Hayek’s View of Knowledge: What Really Went Wrong with Socialist Planned Economies?
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855541
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Proximity and Innovation in Italian SMEs
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Petraglia, Carmelo; Testa, Giuseppina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian … SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of … magnitude of such impact being decreasing in firms’ size. Second, knowledge diffusion via geographical proximity enhances the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622012
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The effects of asymmetric and symmetric fetal growth restriction on human capital development
Robinson, Joshua J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and earnings as an adult. Using insights from the medical literature, I decompose low birth weight infants into two distinct subtypes: a symmetric type, which is characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325650
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Globalization and health worker crisis: what do wealth-effects tells us?
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource migration, the empirical dimension of the health-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110828
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Human Capital and Poverty in Pakistan: Evidence from the Punjab Province
Ali, Sharafat; Ahmad, Najid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
of knowledge, training and skills in the people empowers them. Improved human resources increase the productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111053
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The impact of health worker migration on development dynamics: evidence of wealth-effects from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource(HHR) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112149