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Paradox Lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
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A Programming Approach to Financing Public Education
Colburn, James; Boisvert, Richard N. - 1982
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Why Germany has such a weak growth performance
Siebert, Horst - 2003
Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - 2004
two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …
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Life Expectancy, Labor Supply, and Long-Run Growth: Reconciling Theory and Evidence
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012
calibrate the model to US data and show that the historical evolution of increasing education and declining labor supply can be …
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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele; de Grip, Andries - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
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Innovation, industrial dynamics and economic growth
Stadler, Manfred - 2015
We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain …
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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth
Popović, Milenko - In: Montenegrin Journal of Economics 2 (2006) 4, pp. 71-108
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. We start from general production function with heterogeneous labor input and...
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