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Gender inequality as a barrier to economic growth : a review of the theoretical literature
Klasen, Stephan; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888636
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Can HIV alter the quantity-quality switch and delay the fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Gori, Luca; Lupi, Enrico; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2017
fertility in high HIV-prevalent SSA countries induced by the fall in education and human capital investments following the drop …-to-quality of children. This result suggests that the current evidence on fertility halting and declining education in high HIV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114066
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Knowledge Codification and Endogenous Growth
Schneider, Maik T. - 2007
The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753129
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Knowledge codification and endogenous growth
Schneider, Maik T. - 2007
The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459422
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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021942
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Exploring Italy's Growth Challenge : A Model-Based Exercise
Székely, István P. - 2019
Since the mid-1990s, Italy's economic growth faltered, primarily due to sluggish productivity growth. This article investigates the root causes of the slow growth. Firstly, it benchmarks Italy over time vis-à-vis euro area and OECD countries in the area of human capital, product market...
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Semi-endogenous growth in a non-Walrasian DSEM for Brazil : estimation and simulation of changes in foreign income, human capital, R&D, and terms of trade
Ziesemer, Thomas - In: Economic change & restructuring 56 (2023) 2, pp. 1147-1183
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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2007
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051236
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Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries? Evidence from Pooled Mean-Group Estimates
Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2003
output of one additional year of education (about 6 percent) is also consistent with microeconomic evidence on the private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133535
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A Human Capital Theory of Growth : New Evidence for an Old Idea
Breton, Theodore R. - 2014
In 1960 Theodore Schultz expounded a human capital theory of economic growth that includes three elements: 1) Countries without much human capital cannot manage physical capital effectively, 2) Economic growth can only proceed if physical capital and human capital rise together, and 3) Human...
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