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A selection analysis on education returns in China

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...

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Training, education and productivity

Carmichael, Fiona; Ercolani, Marco; Kang, Lili; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of training and education on productivity, in particular linking to a literature that emphasizes the need to reorganise production following adoption of ICT. The paper examines training at the total economy level and variation across industries, focusing...

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New measures of workforce skills in the EU

Kang, Lili; O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new data series designed to yield a more complete picture of the growth in average skill levels embedded in the EU workforce, comparing with competitor countries such as the US and China. Harmonised data from EU surveys are employed to extend coverage in existing databases to...

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Market Mechanism and Skill Premiums in the UK 1972-2002

Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the effect of shifts in the relative supply and demand of skills on the skill premiums and wage …

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Economic Reform and Productivity Convergence in China

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines effects of the formation of physical and human capital on the growth of labour productivity, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and wages in China, incorporating the market reform factors such as ownership shifts, population policy, openness and fiscal expenditures on education....

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Cyclical changes in the wage structure of the United Kingdom: a historical review of the GHS 1972-2002

Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to investigate the cyclical changes in the wage structure of the United Kingdom over the period 1972 …-2002 using the General Household Survey (GHS). Wage structure of the UK shows a cyclical pattern, which may be from the different … wage cyclicality of the top, middle and bottom percentile groups. Higher educated male workers have experienced a faster …

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Sistema inter-regional sul-restante do Brasil: composição do efeito multiplicador de produção e emprego

Rodrigues, Rossana Lott; Moretto, Antonio Carlos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of final sectorial demand and to estimate the overflowing effect of production and employment of the input-output inter … 26 sectors, for the year 1999. The results of the distribution of the multiplier effect of production and employment … respect to the overflowing of employment, the greatest values found for the Rest of Brazil were for sector 17-Food industry …

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Employment and familiar agriculture agribusiness in the Brazilian economy: an interregional Leontief-Miyazawa model approach

Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Camargo, Fernanda … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

had an impact over employment generation and income sectors in the Familiar and Non-Familiar Agriculture Agribusiness in …

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Tertiary activities and informality: quantitative importance and interconnections within the economy in Brazil

Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Leontief model. The results show: a) the importance of the Tertiary sector for the Brazilian economy in terms of employment …

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Impactos da agricultura de precisão na economia brasileira

Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In order to estimate the potential impact of the adoption of the main techniques of precision agriculture in the Brazilian agriculture on socio economic development, this study used an extensive bibliographic review of the main results that the techniques of precision agriculture and simulated...

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