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traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774936
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146226
Het menselijk kapitaal van werknemers kan verouderen wanneer bepaalde vaardigheden onvoldoende gebruikt worden en daardoor deels verloren gaan of doordat technologische en organisatorische innovaties van het productieproces nieuwe eisen stellen aan de kennis en vaardigheden van werknemers. In...
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Het belang van leren en werken wordt steeds nijpender. Als gevolg van de ontwikkeling van een dynamische kenniseconomie is het noodzakelijk om het kennisniveau van de werkenden op peil te houden via leren op het werk. Deze noodzaak wordt versterkt door de vergrijzing van de beroepsbevolking.Het...
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Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often infurther training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests thatthere is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers,which leaves the question of why the low...
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
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-founded education and fertility decision of households into a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity. Our theoretical … framework leads to two testable implications: i) the export share of a country increases with the education level of its … population, ii) the average profitability of firms located in a country also increases with the education level of its population …
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Dit rapport presenteert de belangrijkste bevindingen van de Arbeidsmarktmonitor Metalektro 2010. Deze zijn gebaseerd op de uitgebreide internetvragenlijst die in juli 2010 en januari 2011 door het Werkgeverspanel van Metalektrobedrijven is ingevuld. In elke meting zijn vragen beantwoord met...
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