MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …

policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

increase in occupational mobility was due to the increase in the variability of productivity shocks to occupations. The model …