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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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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Role of Education and Skill Development for Sustainable Development
Chakrabarty, Aritra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
workforce. The education system churns out students that are not immediately employable and skill up-gradation on the job is low …; implying that a large section of the currently employed labor possesses outdated skills. The current skill training setup … a determinant of sustained growth with special focus on skill development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111520
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The skill biased technological change in Turkish manufacturing industries
Eruygur, H. Ozan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The skill biased technological change (SBTC) hypothesis relates earnings inequality to the change in technology with … for skill biased technological change hypothesis for Turkish manufacturing sector between 1982 and 1998. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620112
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Baumol and the post-industrial trilemma: examining the relationship between productivity, prices and wages
Lewis, Paul; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259249
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Internal migration and growth in Italy
Etzo, Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The analysis focuses on the impact of interregional migration flows on regional growth rates during the period 1983-2002. A first important result is that migration did affect regional growth rates in Italy. Moreover, the results from the analysis of the two sub-periods, 1983-1992 and 1993-2002,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616734
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Is health wealth? Results of a panel data analysis
Dutta, Mousumi; Husain, Zakir; Chowdhary, Nidhi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to determine whether health (measured by life expectancy at birth) contributes to economic growth and the functional form in which it influences per capita income. This links our study to the debate between Neo-classical and endogenous growth theorists on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110978
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Do Cross-Section Dependence and Parameter Heterogeneity Matter? Evidence on Human Capital and Productivity in Greece
Benos, Nikos; Karagiannis, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
include recent non-stationary panel techniques, allowing for cross-section dependence and parameter heterogeneity in … production technology, along with fixed effects and dynamic panel estimators. We show that ignoring cross-section dependence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114516
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Globalization and Income Inequality: A Panel Data Analysis of 68 Countries
Atif, Syed Muhammad; Srivastav, Mudit; Sauytbekova, Moldir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
increased globalisation worsens income inequality, and vice versa. This hypothesis is investigated using panel data econometric … techniques to examine income inequality index and the index of globalization for panel data of 68 developing countries over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112674
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Inequality, Human Capital and Development: Making the Theory Face the Facts
Papageorgiou, Chris; Razak, Nor Azam Abdul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the period 1970—2000. In the baseline estimation specification and various robustness checks, we obtain results that lend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533697