Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …

unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, householdsﾒ …

perspectives, we discuss the theory of Doepke and Tertilt (2009), where an increase in the return to human capital induces men to …

increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions … about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …

schooling databases. Contrary to a few recent papers that have identified significant nonlinearities between education and …