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education in a two-way error correction panel data analysis of cross-country growth for a set of 14 OECD countries. The central … schooling in growth regressions. The results indicate that, overall, human capital indicators based on literacy scores have a … positive and significant effect on the transitory growth path, and on the long run levels of GDP per capita and labor …
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Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …
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Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on … the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …
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Policy in developed countries is often based on the assumption that higher business ownership rates induce economic value. Recent microeconomic empirical evidence casts doubts on the validity of this assumption or, at least, leads to a more nuanced view: Especially the top performing business...
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Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …
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Contemporary views on the determinants of economic growth place education in centre stage. Yet the way in which … education affects growth is not yet well understood. This paper begins by surveying the recent literature on the factors that … affect growth, paying particular attention to education. It then proceeds to estimate a comprehensive model of growth …
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. Industrialization can explain the robust correlation between equipment investment and growth in developing countries. We show that … investment and growth, and find that it is strongest in economies on the brink of industrialization. We also show that this …
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This paper proposes an endogenous growth model where human capital is the engine of growth and can be transferred … these two counteracting forces into account, our model predicts that the relationship between income growth in a developing …
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One of the most interesting facts about the growth of developed nations, especially of the US growth, in the last three … decades is significant growth of the ratio of the wage of skilled labor to that of unskilled labor. At the same time, existing … growth which is common to all developed countries and which can explain the greatest part of education cost ratio increase in …
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