school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether …

This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in labour productivity … determinants of productivity. Furthermore, higher enrolments in high schools not only contribute to higher labour productivity but … also to higher growth in productivity. In addition, states that have higher high school enrolment rates have been enjoying …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country's imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …