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Andrea, Canidio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

I explore the eﬀect of skill-biased technological change on long-run inequality by building a model where the supply of skilled and unskilled workers, the cost of education, and credit rationing are endogenous. In the model, the existence of unequal steady states does not depend on the degree...

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Education, Rent-seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources.

Wadho, Waqar Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that natural resources breed corruption and reduce educational attainments, dampening economic growth. The theoretical literature has treated these two channels separately, with natural resources affecting growth either through human capital or corruption. In this...

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The Role of Education for the Economic Growth of Bulgaria

Neycheva, Mariya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper presents results of a study which estimates the impact of human capital on growth in Bulgaria over the period 2000-12. The empirical models are based on the extended Cobb-Douglas production with three inputs ─ labor, physical capital and human capital. Export and Foreign Direct...

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Education investissements directs étrangers et croissance économique réflexions pour le maroc

Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present an endogenous growth model with technological externalities emitted the presence of the foreign direct investments. We showed that the net positive impact on the growth of these investments may be if and only if the host country such as Morocco has reached a minimal level of human...

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Do Cross-Section Dependence and Parameter Heterogeneity Matter? Evidence on Human Capital and Productivity in Greece

Benos, Nikos; Karagiannis, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper estimates production functions for Greek regions over 1981-2003, using a novel human capital dataset. We construct rich human capital series, where data for employees are decomposed according to their education level. Our empirics include recent non-stationary panel techniques,...

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Inequality in the Literacy Levels in Pakistan: Existence and Changes Overtime

Husain, Fazal; Qasim, Muhammad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper attempts to identify the areas that are still lagging behind other parts of the country in terms of literacy levels and are unable to play their role in the velopment of human capital of the country. The analyses indicate that more than 75 per cent of the districts in the country are...

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Growth and Employment In Subsaharan Africa: Theoretical Evidence and Empirical Facts

Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Abstract This paper provides a theoretical and empirical survey on the link between employment and growth in sub … study. First the employment issue in sub-Saharan Africa is mostly a matter of quality than quantity. Secondly the reason of … weak employment performances could not be found in labor market rigidities. Third the observed increase of working poor …

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Manufacturing and Trade Liberalisation of India: Continuing the Debate

Ghosh Dastidar, Sayantan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The paper attempts to identify the reasons behind the differential performance of the registered and unregistered manufacturing sectors of India during the post-reform period. The motivation for this study comes from the econometric results of Ghosh Dastidar and Veeramani (2014) who find that...

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Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Pakistan

Ahmed, Qazi Masood; Hyder, Kalim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The role of productivity in accelerating the pace of economic growth is well recognized in economic literature and this paper shows that Pakistan’s case is no exception. The purpose of the paper was also to see the effect of government fiscal policy, monetary policy and other economic measures...

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