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"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …
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public investment of $837 million and would yield enormous benefits: over 8.7 million DALYs and 183,000 lives would be saved …
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This note discusses how human capital is a job connector and driver of entrepreneurship. It first presents ideas on how to unlock the barriers to accessing productive employment, with particular attention to the challenges facing women and youth. It then discusses human capital as a job creator,...
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development-through the investment climate, human and social capital, and institutions. The authors then propose three …
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as a functioning credit market to enable private investment, international labor mobility could represent a powerful tool …
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"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although …
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"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...
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