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Human capital and economic growth nexus : does corruption matter?

Mudassaar, Khalil; Ur Rehman, Hafeez - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 13 (2019) 2, pp. 409-418

This paper investigates the human capital and economic growth nexus in the presence of corruption for a disaggregated sample of developed and developing economies, and East, West, and South Asia. For the purpose, Dynamic Panel Data (DPD) and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) are employed....

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Education and within groups earning inequality in Pakistan

Sial, Maqbool H.; Sarwar, Ghulam; Akram, Waseem - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 1, pp. 183-197

The present study focuses on identifying and estimating the extent of earning inequality due to increase in the level …-2014, the study analyzes the effect of education on earning inequality within workers having same level of education. Quantile … regression is employed to estimate and test earning inequality within workers having primary, secondary and tertiary education …

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Reexamination of environmental kuznets curve for ecological footprint : the role of biocapacity, human capital, and trade

Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Mazhar, Maria - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 14 (2020) 1, pp. 202-254

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because of its threat to sustainable development goals. Economic development is responsible for climate change as well as it is complementary to sustainability. Hence, environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is central to the development...

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Human capital, trade openness and CO2 emissions : evidence from heterogeneous income groups

Iqbal, Muhammad Ali; Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Luni, Tania - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 15 (2021) 3, pp. 559-585

This study examines the impact of trade openness, urbanization, and human capital on environmental degradation using the panel data of 126 economies for the years 1971-2020. The study also extends the analysis for four sub-panels namely, high-income economies (HIC), upper-middle-income economies...

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Application of endogenous growth model to the economy of Pakistan : a cointegration approach

Mahmood, Haider; Chaudhary, Amatul R. - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 2 (2009), pp. 16-24

During the last few decades, governments of developing countries have increasingly viewed foreign direct investment (FDIs) as a catalyst for economic growth. This study investigates the impact of FDI on economic growth of Pakistan by using Endogenous Growth Model. Out of a number of variables...

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The nexus between higher education and economic growth : an empirical investigation for Pakistan

Chaudhary, Amatul R.; Iqbal, Asim; Gillani, Syed Yasir … - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 3 (2009), pp. 1-9

The study investigates the role of higher education in economic growth for Pakistan between 1972 and 2005 using the application of Johansen Cointegration and Toda & Yamamoto (1995) Causality approach in Vector Autoregressive (VAR) framework. It examines whether higher education affect long run...

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Revisiting the relationship between ability and sheepskin effects of schooling on individual earnings : the case of Pakistan

Shabbir, Tayyeb - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 2, pp. 419-442

Significant amount of recent research continues to produce evidence in support of the presence of sheepskin effects in returns to schooling both for developed and developing countries. However, researchers have not made many attempts to identify or empirically test the possible mechanisms that...

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