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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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Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth
Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787003
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The role of education in regional innovation activities and economic growth: spatial evidence from China
Chi, Wei; Qian, Xiaoye - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology … innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth. However, there is little evidence on the role of human capital in … innovation. Using the Chinese provincial data from 1997 to 2006, we show that workers’ tertiary education is significantly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055488
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Education, innovation and economic growth in Cameroon
Edielle, Ngwa; Jackson, T. H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate technologically (innovation or imitation) the role of human capital in … capital. Theoretically, the stock of knowledge available in a country determines through innovation productivity growth. In … direct effect of human capital on TFP growth between 1960 and 2001 is greater than innovation capability (Higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621943
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Les transferts des fonds des migrants marocains : Leviers de croissance et du développement
Bouoiyour, Jamal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Remittances are an important source of external financing for a country like Morocco. We show in this paper the properties of these financial flows. Indeed, we show that remittances are more stable than foreign direct investment. They are pro-cyclical in some periods and countercyclical in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111244
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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147305
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Knowledge Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Growth: An Industry-level Analysis for OECD Countries
Bournakis, Ioannis; Christopoulos, Dimitris; Mallick, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251881
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On International Spillovers
Bianco, Dominique; Niang, Abdou-Aziz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study investigates the role of international spillovers in generating productivity gains for a panel of 24 OECD countries during the period between 1971 and 2004. We use recent techniques developed in a common factor framework to characterize the global interdependence implied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109752
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Patents, technological inputs and spillovers among regions
Gumbau-Albert, Mercedes; Maudos, Joaquin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
significant effect on innovation output, measured by the number of patents. R&D spillovers weighted by the distance and the volume …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999998
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147300