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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596380
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Embodied human capital unemployment
Kumaraku, Klajdi; Naqvi, Nadeem; Rexhepi, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025275
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Will India become a world economy power?
Incaltarau, Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
India's economic rise during the last decades has surprised most of the economists, including the Nobel Laureate Paul … Krugman. Which are the ingredients of such an economic roadmap and why hasn’t India's economy boosted along with those of the … "Asian tigers" during the 80s or later, with China’s economy? Once India became an important economic player, it can no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835347
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Predicting Stock Market Returns Based on the Content of Annual Report Narrative: A New Anomaly
Wisniewski, Tomasz Piotr; Yekini, Liafisu Sina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper uses the tools of computational linguistics to analyze the qualitative part of the annual reports of UK listed companies. More specifically, the frequency of words associated with praise, concreteness and activity is measured and used to forecast future stock returns. We find that our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112773
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Benchmarking of corporate social responsibility: Methodological problems and robustness
Graafland, J.J.; Eijffinger, S.C.W.; Smid, H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper investigates the possibilities and problems of benchmarking Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). After a methodological analysis of the advantages and problems of benchmarking, we develop a benchmark method that includes economic, social and environmental aspects as well as national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619153
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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Between the Workshop and the State: Training Human Capital in Railroad Companies in Mexico and Chile, 1850-1930
Guajardo, Guillermo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the human capital training strategies adopted between the 1850s and 1930s by railroad companies in Mexico and Chile. These two countries enable one to contrast the different routes taken by the same type of firm, technology and labor force. A propos of this, we suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267854
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US city size distribution revisited: Theory and empirical evidence
Ramos, Arturo; Sanz-Gracia, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We develop a urban economic model in which agents locate in cities of different size so as to maximize the net output of the whole system of cities in a country. From this model two new city size distributions are exactly derived. We call these functions “threshold double Pareto Generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271310
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A Theoretical Basis for Green Growth
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper suggests a theoretical model of inclusive green growth. Paper analyses development mechanism through which natural resource capital regenerates (or at least non-degrade) and contributes to economic growth. Climate change is a threat to save natural resources which is a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271331