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Gender Equality and Economic Diversification

Kazandjian, Romina - 2016

We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity, such as lower educational enrollment rates for girls than...

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Educational Aid Policy and Inequality : The Case for Merit- and Need-Based Aid

Hadavand, Aboozar - 2018

Using model in which the assignment of skills to tasks is determined by relative productivities and are endougenously determined by ability, access to higher education, and technology, I find the effect of different educational aid schemes (including need-based aid, merit-based aid, or a...

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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Effects and Solutions

Glassman, Amanda L.; Silverman, Rachel; McQueston, Katherine - 2012

finds variable results for all indicator types with the partial exception of knowledge-based indicators, which increased in …

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Epidemics, Gender, and Human Capital in Developing Countries

Fabrizio, S.; Gomes, Diego; Meyimdjui, Carine; Mendes … - 2022

Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...

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Occupation-specific south-north migration

Heuer, Nina - 2010

This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...

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The Human Capital Constraint : Of Increasing Returns, Education Choice and Coordination Failure

Aiyar, Shekhar S. - 2002

This paper explores the idea that LDCs may face a human capital constraint in terms of having insufficient numbers of suitably educated people to be able to take advantage of technological innovations in the rich world. Technologically advanced sectors which operate under increasing returns to...

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The effect of occupation-specific brain drain on human capital

Heuer, Nina - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis of a beneficial brain drain using occupation-specific data on migration from developing countries to OECD countries around 2000. Distinguishing between several types of human capital allows to assess whether the impact of high-skilled south-north migration on...

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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018

located. The main results indicate that firms with a larger share of women in the knowledge creation and innovation process …This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation …

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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean small island developing states

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - 2017

In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global …. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …

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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers : evidence from Pakistan

Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024

analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of innovative capabilities, level of competition, and availability of market sources of knowledge are important inducers … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform …

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