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Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model

Jun, Bogang; Hwang, Won-Sik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the...

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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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The determinants of long-run inequality

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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Foreign direct investment-economic growth nexus: The role of domestic financial development in Portugal

Muhammad, Shahbaz; Nuno, Carlos Leitão; Summaira, Malik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

development stimulates economic growth for the case of Portugal. Foreign direct investment also good promoter of economic growth …

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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model: Transitional Dynamics and Welfare Evaluation

Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model

Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

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