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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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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? – The Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions in Small Firms

Werner, Arndt; Moog, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

leaving paid employment for self-employment. We think, that this is a special kind of knowledge spillover. We also control for …

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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...

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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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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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Variables perceptuales y emprendimiento naciente en Chile: oportunidad versus necesidad

Lennon Sabatini, Joaquin; Franetovic Parker, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this work we seek to assess how perception variables affect on the timely decision to undertake in Chile, measured by the nascent entrepreneurship, ie, those entrepreneurs who are starting a new business, including any form of self-employment or commersialisation of all types of goods or...

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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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