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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
This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000...
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow?s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262544
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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A prominent explanation for this skill deficit of U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262676
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How general is human capital? A task-based approach
Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - 2007
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268676
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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition
Kaas, Leo - 2008
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions.
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Does human capital protect workers against exogenous shocks? South Africa in the 2008 - 2009 crisis
Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - 2009
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2003
One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate convincing examples of investment that could generate the sometimes observed large and continuing effects on earnings. Another approach, called the ?skill-weights? view, allows all skills to be general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261549
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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