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Skill Composition, Fertility and Economic Growth
Day, Creina - 2014
While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154706
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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
Borissov, Kirill - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985671
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The impact of skills shortage on economic development in Germany : a mixed method approach
Hertrich, Tobias Johannes; Brenner, Thomas - 2024
In Europe, there is an increasing shortage of skilled workers and jobs remain vacant for long periods of time. The shortage of skilled workers has become a key issue for various stakeholders, as it not only makes it difficult to recruit and retain employees, but it is also seen as a significant...
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Demographic transitions across time and space
Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2022
The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and … increases in schooling similar to the one in the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382030
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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010
From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through, but is not limited to, formal educational activities such...
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931469
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Israel's High Fertility Rate and Anemic Skill Acquisition
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The exceptionally high fertility among ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Arab minority, increasing portions of the population …, is the main reason for Israel's flagging labor-force participation. In addition, high fertility diminishes Israel's skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955195
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Israel's high fertility rate and anemic skill acquisition
Razin, Asaf - 2017
The exceptionally high fertility among ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Arab minority, increasing portions of the population …, is the main reason for Israel's flagging labor-force participation. In addition, high fertility diminishes Israel's skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646846
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586