Showing 1 - 10 of 739
of human capital available to hiring companies, which drives the efficiency of matching between workers and firms and … ultimately determines productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633348
The aim of this paper is to make imputation of earnings in observations with missing values in the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupaciones y Empleo (ENOE), and also to analyze a possible bias in human capital estimations from ignoring such missings. We present imputations by two methods, and also a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109800
This study examines sources of Australian labour productivity change from 1950 to 1994. Time-series data are used to … estimate a model capturing the interaction between labour productivity, fixed capital, human capital, telecommunications, trade … short-run labour productivity. In the long run, fixed capital accumulation is the dominant source of productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621951
This paper presents the results of long run labour productivity and GDP growth rate projections (until 2050) for each … employment and labour productivity. These base case projections reflect the working assumption of “no policy change … population is fairly limited, although it is accepted that the labour productivity of an individual is likely to decline after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619654
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
The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258801
The role of productivity in accelerating the pace of economic growth is well recognized in economic literature and this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079326
We examine the impact of the values respect for others and responsibility on productivity and the accumulation of … is substantial. Respect for others works primarily through productivity whereas responsibility is important to investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541503
We examine the process of internationalisation of firms, contributing to the knowledge on the factors behind a successful entry and operation in the export markets using duration analysis. Rich longitudinal microlevel data on Finnish manufacturing plants allow an indepth analysis of the life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617187
capital. Theoretically, the stock of knowledge available in a country determines through innovation productivity growth. In … that way, we use a Vector Error Correction model (VECM) to evaluate the impact of human capital on productivity growth …. Productivity is approximated by the Total factors Productivity (TFP) evaluated by growth accounting method. Our estimates show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621943