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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
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Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?
Delgado, Michael - 2013
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical … growth, our results suggest that mean years of schooling is not a statistically relevant variable in growth regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089004
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
achievement can account for a majority of international differences in economic growth and that institutional features of school …
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
growth …
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Flexibility at a Cost : Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?
Stenberg, Anders - 2015
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often …
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015
both countries, we find that the returns to human capital increase with proximity to the technological frontier in … proximity to the technological frontier is observed in knowledge-intensive services, which is most pronounced for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035179
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A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults
Stenberg, Anders - 2022
Evaluations of adults in formal education (AE) are typically based on earnings measured 5-10 years after program enrollment. This paper estimates returns up to 24 years after enrollment, and explore results for 15 cohorts of first-time registered in AE in Sweden 1994-2008 with at least a 10-year...
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity ofSkilled Labor
Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters ofskilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workerschanges proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affectthe curvature of...
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … growth policy...<br< …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863368
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … growth policy. We address issues like the scale effect problem, directed technological change to understand the evolution of …
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