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Endogenous Growth with Public Factors and Heterogeneous Human Capital Producers

Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

If government revenues from a flat-rate income tax are spent on public factors and public factors are used for human capital production and human capital is used for the production of technical progress, then a higher rate of taxation will lead to a higher rate of technical progress if steady...

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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies to tackle the problem in India context by using field...

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Human capital and trends in the transmission of economic status across generations in the U.S.

Richey, Jeremiah; Rosburg, Alicia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Using data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a decomposition method based on the OLS omitted variable bias...

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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In recent days, controlling school dropout has emerged to be the prime hindrance to spread literacy and formation of human resource thereby. The present paper is an attempt to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest probable solutions to the problem. Status of enrollment &...

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Skill formation, public expenditure on education and wage inequality: theory and evidence

Biswas, Anindya; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skills acquirement for improving relative wage inequality in the future. Empirical observations on some prominent small OECD countries, however, indicate that the relationship between wage inequality and public...

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R & D sector outsourcing, human capital formation and growth in the context of developed versus developing economies

Basu, Sujata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

An advanced economy relies on innovation activity for its further technology improvement. On the other hand a backward … economy depends on both imitation from the world technology frontier and innovation activities - innovation being more skilled … innovation-only regime to an imitation-innovation regime. I show that dependence on imitation activities rises and as a …

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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital

Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...

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Educational Development Index Based on DISE data for Districts of Uttar Pradesh

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...

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Political Economy of Secularism: Rediscovery of India

Tyabji, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

As it was in Europe, secularism in India is an intrinsic part of the process of the emergence of a modern identity of the people of a multi-language and multi-ethnic society, the necessity for which is being continuously generated by industrialisation and urbanisation.The emergence of this...

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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier

Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based … that there exists a constant level of skilled and unskilled human capital in the imitation-only and innovation-only regimes …. In the imitation-innovation regime stock of skilled human capital rises whereas that of unskilled human capital falls in …

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