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Emigration of Skilled Labor under Risk Aversion: The Case of Medical Doctors from Middle Eastern and North African Economies

Driouchi, Ahmed; Kadiri, Molk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This is a contribution to the new economics of skilled labor emigration that focuses on the mobility of medical doctors from sending Middle East and North African countries. Economic models under risk neutrality and aversion are used. The findings show that the relative expected benefits and the...

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Human Capital Heterogeneity: University Choice and Wages

Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of post-secondary education on wages in Israel. The focus is on the impact of university choice on individual wages controlling for the degree acquired and the area of study. Although the raw data indicate that universities command a different return to education,...

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Global value chains and trade in value-added : an initial assessment of the impact on jobs and productivity

OECD - 2016

by providing new evidence on employment embodied in value-added trade flows. Linking jobs data to the Trade in Value …-Added (TiVA) indicators first highlights that a large share of employment in OECD and key partner countries relies on consumption …. Within GVCs, there is also a shift from employment in core manufacturing activities to employment in service support …

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

Ikegami, Munenobu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to the decrease in long-term household agricultural output...

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Human Deprivation Index: A Measure of Multidimensional Poverty

Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Sarvalingam, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a...

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Relationship between education, health and crime: fable, fallacy or fact

Qadri, Faisal Sultan; Kadri, Adeel Sultan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The study is an empirical evaluation of specific criminal activities. The relationship of criminal activities with inflation, unemployment, investment, education and health are examined through an annual data set from 1980 to 2007. To test the order of integration, Augmented Dickey Fuller test...

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Health Expenditure, education and Economic Growth in MENA Countries

Lacheheb, Miloud; Med Nor, Norashidah; Baloch, Imdadullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study examines the relationship between health expenditure, education and economic growth in MENA countries using panel data estimation. Our results based on random effect estimation endorse a relationship between health expenditure, education and economic growth. Data were obtained from...

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An Econometric Approach of Computing Competitiveness Index in Human Capital

Salahodjaev, Raufhon; Nazarov, Zafar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide methodology of estimating one of the components (pillar) of the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), health and primary education (HPE) pillar for not included in the Global Competitiveness Report countries using conventional econometric techniques....

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The Impact of Education on Total Fertility Rate in Pakistan (1981-2008)

Naeem Ur Rehman, Khattak; Khan, Jangraiz; Tariq, Muhammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Most of the developing countries are facing the problem of high population growth, which is causing numerous social and economic problems. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in most of developing countries stands higher than the developed countries (UNPD, 2000). The TFR in Pakistan was 7.0 in...

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