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Human Capital, Schooling and Health
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted … changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments. Statistical estimation of wage functions …
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259
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Decoupling of labour productivity growth from median wage growth in Central and Eastern Europe
Schröder, Joris - 2020
The US-centred debate on the decoupling of productivity from workers' compensation has given rise to the question whether this decoupling has also taken place in other countries, and if so, to what degree. However, in-depth analyses of the extent and the underlying causes of wage-productivity...
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Test scores, noncognitive skills and economic growth
Balart, Pau; Oosterveen, Matthijs; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407799
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Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth
Balart, Pau - 2015
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009506
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Skill sorting and production chains : evidence from India
Asuyama, Yoko - 2015
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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976837
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Rising Wages : Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141714