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Human capital and the adoption of information and communications technologies: Evidence from investment climate survey of Pakistan
Mughal, Mazhar; Diawara, Barassou - 2011
Technologies (ICT) in the Pakistani firms using the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2002-07. The paper considers various indicators of … human capital and measures of ICT adoption and diffusion. On-the-job training, manager's level of qualification and … size, sales and workers' compensation are also positively associated with the use of ICT. The findings show the importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305853
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Global trends in numeracy 1820-1949 and its implications for long-run growth
Crayen, Dorothee; Baten, Jörg - 2008
, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping techniques. Assessing the determinants of numeracy, we find school enrolment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264304
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291365
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Can education save Europe from high unemployment?
Walter, Nicole; Xie, Runli - 2008
Empirical observations show that education helps to protect against labor market risks. This is twofold: The higher educated face a higher expected wage income and a lower probability of being unemployed. Although this relationship has been analyzed in the literature broadly, several questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263735
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600905
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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271261
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: Evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294032
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294568
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261806
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
analyses are based on the German Life History Study (GLHS), in which longitudinal biographical data was gathered for the West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262544