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Education. earning and skills: A multi-country comparison

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004

This paper uses the measures of basic skills (or functional literacy) in the International Adult Literacy Survey to examine the impact of education and basic skills on earnings across a large number of countries. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to the inclusion...

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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - 2004

We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...

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Functional literacy, educational attainment and earnings - evidence from the international adult literacy survey

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; Redmond, Sandra - 2000

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. The IALS surveys 12 OECD countries and sub-regions via a consistent questionnaire and includes a number of tests of numeracy and literacy, as...

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Identifying Reduced-Form Relations with Panel Data

Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - 2007

The literature that tests for U-shaped relationships using panel data, such as those between pollution and income or … subjective choices due to a lack of identification. We apply our methodology to the pollution-income relationship of both CO2 …- and SO2-emissions. Interestingly, our approach yields estimates of both income (scale) and time (composition and …

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The effects of human capital on social capital: A cross-country analysis

Denny, Kevin J. - 2003

This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals' participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and focusing on the impact of human capital I find a consistently positive effect...

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Decomposing World Health Inequality

Pradhan, Menno; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2001

contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is thesource of most inequality, rather than the …

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