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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …
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Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
Engel, Eduardo M. R. A. - 2010
The government contracts with a foreign firm to extract a natural resource that requires an upfront investment and which faces price uncertainty. In states where profits are high, there is a likelihood of expropriation, which generates a social cost that increases with the expropriated value. In...
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China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …
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Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2020
Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in … illumination across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, we find evidence confirming each of the model's predictions. Structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832312
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Externalities and Industrial Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021
Using a panel data set of county-level employment in machinery, electrical machinery, primary metals, transportation, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined include the role of externalities from own industry...
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The Technology of Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760446
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Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from California Community Colleges
Stevens, Ann Huff - 2015
Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as an attractive alternative to four-year colleges, yet little systematic evidence exists on the returns to specific certificates and degrees. We estimate returns to CTE programs using administrative data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023341
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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko - 2022
We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training that either...
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068131
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758155