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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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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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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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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

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Knowledge and technological development effects on organizational and social structures

Abdelnour-Nocera, José L. (contributor) - 2013

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Industrial informatics design, use, and innovation : perspectives and services

Lund, Andreas (contributor); Wiberg, Mikael (contributor); … - 2010

but it also provides a broad state-of-the-art review and shows connections and gaps in the current knowledge for … -- Industrial Informatics and the Ecology of Innovation / Per Levén -- Making IT Visible / Katrin Jonsson -- Interactive …

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Technological innovations in adaptive and dependable systems : advancing models and concepts

De Florio, Vincenzo (contributor) - 2012

"This book provides high quality, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive and dependable systems that are built to sustain quality of service and experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their...

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Innovations in embedded and real-time systems engineering for communication

Virtanen, Seppo (contributor) - 2012

1. Current challenges in embedded communication systems / Jouni Isoaho, Seppo Virtanen, Juha Plosila -- 2. Parallel programming and its architectures based on data access separated algorithm kernels / Dake Liu, Joar Sohl, Jian Wang -- 3. Towards sustainable development of energy-aware systems /...

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