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Bevölkerung und Wachstum: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland als Herausforderung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik

Kleinhenz, Gerhard D. - 2004

Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...

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Regional Cooperation in Education: Issues for Developing Countries in the Asia-Pacific

Yap, Josef T. - 2012

Human capital development is important for economic growth. The main channel by which human capital can be enhanced is education, which is characterized by the issues of availability, access, and quality. Domestic reforms can be complemented by regional cooperation in education. The main...

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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?

Wiklund, Fredrik - 1999

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...

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Aspekty efektivnosti při volbě profese a školy: Přizpůsobují se pražské střední školy potřebám podniků?

Benáček, Vladimír - 2010

In this paper we study three crucial questions of economic decision-making: a) How are the people motivated in the choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with the criteria for building the human capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on...

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Human capital and economic growth: Pakistan, 1960 - 2003

Abbasa, Qaisar; Foreman-Peck, James - 2007

This paper investigates the relationship between human capital and economic growth in Pakistan with time series data. Estimated with the Johansen (1991) approach, the aggregate production function rejects one version of the endogenous growth formulation. But the fitted model indicates that the...

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Wage Dispersion in Russia

Grogan, L.A. - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentialsin the Russian … scrutinised from theperspective of human capital theory. Human capital theory predicts that, in unregulated labour markets … occupation type. According to this theory, the deregulationof Russian labour markets in the transition to a market economy should …

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2006

entrepreneurs from the Netherlands provides broad support for the theory; implications for policy-makers concerned about the …

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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation

de Graaff, Thomas; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2004

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part...

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Spatial Patterns of Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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