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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493951
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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251487
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
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The Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
education and research including university education, vocational, technical, professional and medical education other than … innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research keeping in view the global … standards of educational and research practices and for that purpose to establish the National Commission for Higher Education …
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Subsidizing extra jobs : promoting employment by taming the unions
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003620170
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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino (contributor);  … - 2007
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Population aging and the direction of technical change
Irmen, Andreas - 2009
An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923496
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507980
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The "Taxing Wages" approach to measuring the tax burden on labour
Heady, Christopher - 2003
This paper outlines the methodology used by the OECD in its Taxing Wages publication, compares this approach to other measures of the effective tax rate on labour and uses recent results to illustrate its use. It argues that the strength of this methodology lies in its ability to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507992
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That elusive elasticity : a long-panel approach to estimating the capital-labor substitution elasticity : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Chirinko, Robert S.; Fazzari, Steven M.; Meyer, Andrew P. - 2004
The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research …
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