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Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth
Zee, Howell H. - 2006
The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner`s law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human...
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Privatization of Water Supply and Human Capital Accumulation
Ao, Chon-Kit - 2021
This study presents empirical evidence that a health improvement program---privatization of municipal water services …
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Does product market competition decrease employers' training investments? : evidence from German establishment panel data
Görlitz, Katja (contributor); Stiebale, Joel (contributor) - 2008
Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition … on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and …
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Tuning in RBC Growth Spectra
Benk, Szilard - 2017
For US postwar data, the paper explains central consumption, labor, investment and output correlations and volatilities along with output growth persistence by including a human capital investment sector and a variable physical capital utilization rate. Strong internal "amplication" results from...
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Die Ökonomie der Zertifizierung von Managemententscheidungen durch Unternehmensberatungen
Franck, Egon; Pudack, Torsten - 2000
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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training : a theoretical model with evidence from Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2010
deregulation increases training incidence. -- training ; product market competition ; Europe … contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of …
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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training
Bassanini, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2007
deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and thereby reduces training. On the other hand, the number of firms increases … results are unambiguous and show that an increase in product market deregulation generates a sizeable increase in training …
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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training : a theoretical model with evidence from Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - In: European economic review : EER 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1152-1176
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training : A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of … deregulation increases training incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316253
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Estimating private financial return on investment in education in Tangail City : a Mincerian Model analysis
Tabassum, Kazi; Liton, Muhammad Rabiul Islam - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 21 (2023) 1, pp. 65-70
Several reasons are responsible for income disparity across different nations. Education established itself to be the primary reason for such disparities. Therefore, estimation of return on investments in education has become a great concern of the researchers in recent years. In most of the...
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