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Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of …
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Covid-19 and Technology
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea - 2021
This contribution reviews the rich interdisciplinary literature covering the relationship between the diffusion of COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to manufacturing companies. Besides covering the technical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700494
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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers: Evidence from Pakistan.
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024
New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we analyzed five different measures of process innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542204
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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985886
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Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature
Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017
We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729226
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? Results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011755776
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The Impact of Compulsory Education on Employment and Earnings in a Transition Economy
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811743
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Conscription and Educational Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261871
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The Political Economy of Child Labor
Dimova, Ralitza - 2021
Concerns about the welfare of working children has over time produced a wide range of international and national interventions in the child labor market, culminating most recently in a commitment to eradicate the worst forms of child work via the attainment of target 8.7 of the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497756
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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece
Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022
restrictions. Our results support the hypothesis that technology diffusion promotes educational outcomes and provides additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326734