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This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child labor. Human capital, which is built up through formal education and parental child-rearing, is the only input in production. Two aspects are central to the analysis: First, a...
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This study analyses the role of education in economic development in the republics of the former Socialist Bloc and more specifically the impact of human capital on per capita economic growth in transition economies in the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. The factors that are associated with the...
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The paper aims to explicitly determine the distribution of human capital across hierarchic educational stages along the transition process, and to analyse the determinants of its evolution. We apply optimal control principles in a model of endogenous growth with two successive stages of...
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predicts that economies with a more egualitarian presence of females and males in employment and higher population growth rates … simulate the model on some European countries with different female/male employment rates, population growth rates and capital … work, on average, a lower number of hours than countries with a lower relative proportion of females in employment. …
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between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key assumptions are that … contribute to growth. Underground employment alleviates unemployment only if the monitoring rate is sufficiently low. …
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Our paper analyzed the impact and causal relation of outbound Chinese FDI on growth, employment and export performance … the impact of Chinese outbound FDI on employment and export are insignificant. However, the impact of FDI on growth is … refined dynamic panel model indicates that Chinese FDI does not cause GDP, exports and employment while the results of reverse …
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with data for Argentina and the U.S.A. circa 1970. …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on their employment growth. A … model that relates employment growth to process innova- tions and to the growth of sales due to innovative and unchanged …. Results for manufacturing show that, although process innovation tends to displace employment, compensation e ffects are …
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The priorities of the EU budget for 2009 are: economic growth, employment, climate, strengthening security and safety …
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change in employment in India that results from the exclusionary nature of the growth process hardly approximates the … categories in non-agriculture and argues that the shift in employment basically expands the ‘reserve army of labour’ in the …
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