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This article has two main objectives: The first one is to review the most commonly used methods of measuring human capital in the macroeconomic analysis. Here, a summary of methods considering educational characteristics of population and labour force is presented, such as usage of literacy...
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The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
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The relationship between education and economic growth has been one of the fundamental themes of economic analysis …. Despite the growing interest in the relationship between growth and education, and despite the strong theoretical foundations … for a key role of education/human capital in economic growth, the empirical evidences, particularly those using causality …
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a determinant of sustained growth with special focus on skill development. …
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Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the … inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the model presented by Galor and Zeira (1993) to represent the fact that … aid package in the form of the new student loans program positively influences equality and short-run economic growth by …
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growth and income distribution in Rwanda. Using a disaggregated SAM for Rwanda and with the assistance of structural path … analysis, the paper explores the macroeconomic implications of family size for human capital, sectoral growth and income … planning programs seems to be a viable strategy for economic growth and poverty reduction. …
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the role of human capital accumulation measured by number of years of schooling with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity. We employ several concepts of institutional quality prevalent in the literature. We discover that...
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evidence shows that tertiary education has a strong positive association with labor productivity growth, while secondary … with growth. Overall, findings suggest that policy makers should account for spillovers alongside technology heterogeneity …
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The subject of this paper consist in theoretical study on the relationship between two models of the social-human typology in the context of globalization: homo oeconomicus and homo academicus. Reviewing some of the most approved views on theoretical and conceptual aspects and limits of the two...
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across families. Literal inheritance anyway dissipates in reversion to the mean. What mattered in modern economic growth was …
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