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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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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...
Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005
base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links between infrastructure and productivity using South African time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125863
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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
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The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d<92>Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d'Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076938
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005
The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and defined replacement ratio UI systems are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125042