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Can Educational Attainment Explain Total Factor Productivity? Growth Accounting Evidence from Seven Transition Countries for the Period 1991-2000
Ganev, Kaloyan - EconWPA - 2005
productivity in transition. The results that are obtained are not in support of the theoretical findings of growth theory that … human capital is a major determinant of growth and productivity. However, eventually we continue to believe that the reasons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062742
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556098
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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118707
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Spatial Proximity and Complementarities in the Trading of Tacit Knowledge
Aydogan, Neslihan; Lyon, Thomas P. - EconWPA - 2004
We model knowledge-trading coalitions in which the transfer of tacit knowledge is unverifiable and requires face-to-face contact, making spatial proximity important. When there are sufficient “complementarities” in knowledge exchange, successful exchange is facilitated if firms can meet in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561791
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Health Economics : some stylized facts
ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003
The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076927
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Die ökonomischen Effekte der Hochschulausgaben des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt – Fiskalische, Humankapital- und Kapazitätseffekte der Hochschulen in Magdeburg (Teil 2)
Rosner, Ulf; Weimann, Joachim - EconWPA - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert, in welchem Umfang und auf welchen Wegen der Wissens- und Humankapitaltransfer durch die Otto-von-Guericke- Universität Magdeburg und die Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) in die Wirtschaft Sachsen-Anhalts stattfindet. Ausgehend von der wirtschaftlichen Ausgangslage...
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the intergenerational transmission of human capital: the case of heterogenous families
HLAIMI, Boubaker - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this paper is to analyse the intergenerational transmission mechanisms within a theoretical framework which supposes a heterogeneous family structure. For that, we propose a modified version of the model of Becker and Tomes (1986) by supposing that they exist two groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076521
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Human Capital in Transitional Russia
Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002
This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992- 2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076535
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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration
Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyzes some of the implications of North American labor market integration for fiscal policy. The economies of Canada and the US are both characterized by highly integrated internal markets for goods and services as well as for labor and capital, and subnational governments in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076579
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The Three Capitals of Pricing – Human, Systems and Social Capital
Ritson, Mark; Zbaracki, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076823