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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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The Role of Endogenous Skill Choice in an Aging Economy

Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...

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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...

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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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La haute technologie est-elle l'exclusivite des entreprises ou peut-elle s'appliquer a l'ensemble d'un secteur d'activite? Donnees recueillies aupres des nouvelles entreprises axee...

Gellatly, Guy; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

connexes sur l'evolution technologique et l'innovation ont mene a l'elaboration de systemes visant a classer les secteurs d … tiennent pas compte du degre d'innovation, ni des competences du capital humain que l'on retrouve dans certains secteurs d …

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Importance des signaux de competence pour l'obtention d'un emploi et de l'avancement

Oreopoulos, Philip; Heisz, Andrew - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

Dans un cadre ou la formation et les perspectives d'avancement dependent des previsions initiales de competence, les effets sur les salaires des signaux de competence initiale peuvent se manifester bien au-dela de la periode ou l'on connait bien les qualites d'un travailleur. Ce document propose...

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La formation comme strategie en matiere de ressources humaines : la reaction aux penuries de personnel et au changement technologique

Baldwin, John R.; Peters, Valerie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

Nous examinons dans le present document de quelles facons la situation sur le plan de l'innovation par opposition a l … non-utilisateurs de telles technologies d'offrir des programmes de formation. A ce niveau, la situation sur le plan de l'innovation … entendre que l'innovation exige non pas tant de nouvelles competences propres aux professions (meme s'il ne fait aucun doute …

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Developpement du capital humain et innovation : la formation dans les petites et moyennes entreprises

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

, facilite par la formation, soit complementaire a l'innovation et a l'evolution technologique. En outre, la frequence de la …'utilisation de nouvelles technologies et avec de nombreuses autres strategies reliees a l'innovation. La formation occupe aussi une …

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