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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2023
-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new … losses in long-run aggregate productivity operating through the human capital channel could be at about 7% if the war lasts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304472
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Longevity shocks with age-dependent productivity growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015
productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528342
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Firms left behind : emigration and firm productivity
Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017
total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781018
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Aggregate multi-factor productivity : measurement issues in OECD countries
Égert, Balázs - 2018
This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800621
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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444868
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383297
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International value-added linkages in development accounting
Cuñat, Alejandro; Zymek, Robert - 2018
endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892529
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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570881
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Ageing and productivity growth : are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630859