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Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

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Optimal policy for secondary education in developing countries

Dosmagambet, Yergali - 2015

This paper shows that an accelerated increase in educational attainments in many East Asian countries derives from a 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...

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Human capital and economic growth : how strong is the Nexus?

Škare, Marinko; Lacmanović, Sabina - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 612-633

The link between human capital and economic growth still remains unexplained because of the measurement issues connected to the human capital stock. This study investigates the link between human capital stock and economic growth using inclusive wealth index and ratio of engage d to actively...

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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

Over the 1948-2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

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Human capital and economic growth : a review essay

Škare, Marinko; Lacmanović, Sabina - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 39, pp. 735-760

Human capital as a critical engine of economic growth is present in many empirical and theoretical body of knowledge on growth models and theory. However, the conclusion on its importance as a driver of economic growth remains inconclusive. The aim of this study is to provide and detailed...

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Human capital, the labour market and productivity growth in Ireland

Bergin, Adele (contributor); Kearney, Ide (contributor) - 2004

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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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Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality

Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - 2021

Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....

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Policy drivers of human capital in the OECD's quantification of structural reforms

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2019

This paper uses a new measure of human capital that works much better in explaining productivity in OECD countries compared to earlier measures of human capital to investigate the educational policy drivers of human capital. A novel methodology is utilised by interacting educational policies,...

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Investing in human capital to boost growth!

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

The Italian economy performs well below the EU average. The reason is a dramatic and persistent low rate of investment, always invoked but never supported by national and supra-national institutions. However, investment to increase the quantity and quality of human capital is key to boost...

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