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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth
Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995
Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change
Wolff, Edward N. - 2002
Using pooled cross-section, time-series data for 44 industries over the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s in the United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its inclusion in the TFP measure). However,...
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Further Comments on The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2010
China during the four decades between 2000 and 2040. The first concerns the source of the factors which make it likely that … China will continue to grow at a high rate for another generation. The paper argues that this growth will be the result of …
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The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2009
spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of … the new recognition among Western economists that the sustained, very rapid growth in China and Southeast Asia was …
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Please Pass the Catch-up The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports
Blonigen, Bruce - 2007
. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465274
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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy
Zhu, Xi - 2013
We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J. - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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Australian Growth : A California Perspective
McLean, Ian W. - 2001
Examination of special cases assists understanding of the mechanics of long-run economic growth more generally. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising living standards for rapidly expanding populations. They are...
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On the Costs of Inward-Looking Development : Historical Perspectives on Price Distortions, Growth, and Divergence in Latin American from 1930s - 1980s
Taylor, Alan M. - 1996
From the 1930s to the 1980s, economic policies in Latin America epitomized the inward-looking model of development. The model emerged in the Depression, and was later codified in unorthodox economic theories. Even though economic performance was seen as disappointing by the 1960s, the...
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Getting Interventions Right : How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich
Rodrik, Dani - 1994
Most explanations of Korea's and Taiwan's economic growth since the early 1960s place heavy emphasis on export orientation. However, it is difficult to see how export orientation could have played a significant causal role in these countries' growth. The measured increase in the relative...
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