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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020
period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213777
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Public investment, life expectancy and income growth
Watanabe, Minoru; Yasuoka, Masaya - In: African journal of economic and sustainable development 6 (2017) 2/3, pp. 216-224
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868028
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Social Status, Education, and Growth
Fershtman, Chaim; Murphy, Kevin M.; Weiss, Yoram - 2009
This paper investigates the implications of social rewards on the allocation of talent in society and consequently on the process of economic growth. We consider two sources of heterogeneity among workers: nonwage income and innate ability. A greater emphasis on status may induce the "wrong"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034200
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A survey on the relationship between education and growth with implications for developing Asia
Kim, Yong-jin; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2010
This paper surveys the empirical and theoretical link between education and growth in the growth process of Asian … countries. Particular attention is paid to the link between education and productivity, and to models that characterize key … education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826308
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Optimal policy for secondary education in developing countries
Dosmagambet, Yergali - 2015
dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with … the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of vocational-to-general education tends to be higher in middle …-income countries. We explore an analytical approach to open up fresh insights into the composition of secondary education and prove the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281876
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Technological change, human capital structure, and multiple growth paths
Kim, Yong Jim; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009
This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817262
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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling
Kassapi, Sophia - 2014
The purpose of this study is to present the literature on economic growth and education as evolved to date and comment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051192
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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling
Kassapi, Sophia - 2016
The interest in education ... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993917
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Contribution of human capital accumulation to Canadian economic growth
Bowlus, Audra J.; Park, Youngmin; Robinson, Chris - 2022
This paper quantifies the contribution of human capital accumulation to the growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) in Canada. GDP growth is decomposed into contributions from physical capital, hours worked, human capital supplied per hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot"...
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