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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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Human capital investment and growth: A dynamic education model
Ben Mimoun, Mohamed; Raies, Asma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper aims to explicitly determine the distribution of human capital across hierarchic educational stages along the transition process, and to analyse the determinants of its evolution. We apply optimal control principles in a model of endogenous growth with two successive stages of...
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Does government spending spur economic growth in Nigeria?
Maku, Olukayode E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study examines the link between government spending and economic growth in Nigeria over the last three decades (1977-2006) using time series data to analyze the Ram (1986) model. Three variants of Ram (1986) model were developed-regressing Real GDP on Private investment, Human capital...
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A fast-forward look at tertiary education attainment in Europe 2020
Dragomirescu-Gaina, Catalin; Elia, Leandro; Weber, Anke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper provides an answer to the question of whether Europe will be able to reach its tertiary education target by 2020. Insights into the dynamics of future education attainment and areas for effective policy interventions in the long-run are highlighted. We model the dynamics behind...
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Agricultural Productivity Differences and Credit Market Imperfections
Nishida, Keigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents a simple model to examine the implication of credit market imperfections when considering the massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents to acquire skills to work in non-agricultural sectors....
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Voluntary and involuntary retirement decision : does real wage rigidity affects the effectiveness of pension reforms ?
Cheron, Arnaud; Khaskhoussi, Fouad; Khaskhoussi, Tarek; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
In this paper, we integrate the retirement deadline taking into account both labor demand and labor supply specificities. This approach reveals that firms' employment decisions play an active role in the early retirement decision. We show that, in a walrasian economy, social security reforms...
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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity
mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...
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Quality of higher education and earnings: Regression discontinuity evidence from the French Baccalaureate
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has predominantly focused on the returns to the most selective universities. However, less is known about the extent to which these gains are realized for the academically marginal...
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