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Determinants of Economic Growth and the Role of Human Capital in New Growth Models [in Turkish]
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005
This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...
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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTERACTION:A POLICY ORIENTED STUDY OF THE AFRICAN UNION
NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003
ELECTRONICALLY AND IN INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS. KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407739
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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004
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 labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …
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The Impact of Education on Economic Growth in Guatemala: A Time- Series Analysis Applying an Error-Correction Methodology
Loening, Ludger J. - EconWPA - 2002
This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error-correction methodology. Two channels are analyzed, by which human capital is expected to influence growth. A better-educated labor force appears to have a positive and...
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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in order to model investments in novel fields of economic activity, that according to this model are carried out when firms recognize the emergence of a new technological pattern....
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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
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Embodied technical change in a two-sector AK model
Felbermayr, Gabriel J; Licandro, Omar - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper, we study a two-sector version of the AK model proposed by Rebelo (1991), where constant returns to capital are confined to the investment goods sector. We show that this setup, an endogenous growth extension to the model of Greenwood, Hercowitz, and Krusell (1997), reproduces...
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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
Schumpeter maintained that oscillations of macroeconomic variables are only the "secondary wave" of business cycles, a reflex of more fundamental "primary waves" at the microeconomic level caused by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with...
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development, in horticultural societies, and less frequently among hunter-gatherers and societies at more advanced agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern...
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