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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008

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

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005

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 …

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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China

Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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The impact of armed conflict on economic performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Serneels, Pieter; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2012

Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and localities that experienced more intense conflict are lagging...

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Earnings effects of training programs

Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - 2007

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...

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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development

Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...

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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment

Christiansen, Charlotte; Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; … - 2006

In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...

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