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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - 2011
Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...
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Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries
Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000
productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …
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Specifying Human Capital: A Review, Some Extensions, and Development Effects
Wößmann, Ludger - 2000
A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...
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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006
Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and … employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …
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Soziale Ertragsraten und Verteilungseffekte des Humankapitals: internationale Evidenz
Gundlach, Erich; Hemmer, Hans-Rimbert - In: Neuere Ansätze der theoretischen und empirischen …, (pp. 229-248). 2003
Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung fällt es derzeit allerdings nicht leicht, die quantitative Relevanz des Humankapitals für den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozess zu bestimmen. Neuere Studien bieten ein...
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Firm-sponsored classroom training: Is it worth it for older workers?
Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - 2011
the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …
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Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2023
Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to retirement, we estimate child skill production functions and embed them into an estimated dynastic model in which altruistic mothers and fathers make investments in their...
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - 2004
We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...
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Education. earning and skills: A multi-country comparison
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004
This paper uses the measures of basic skills (or functional literacy) in the International Adult Literacy Survey to examine the impact of education and basic skills on earnings across a large number of countries. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to the inclusion...
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