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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of noncommunicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross...
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Investigating the interaction between foreign direct investment and human capital on growth : evidence from Nigeria
Nkechi, Onyeagu Augustina; Okezie, Okeiyika Kenechukwu - 2013
The objectives of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between FDI, HCD and Economic growth in Nigeria … and to ascertain the long run sustainability of FDI- induced growth process..Our result show that FDI in Nigeria, has a … negatively significant to growth in the long run, meaning that the contribution of FDI in to Nigeria are small in the long run …
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Relative Income Differential, An Impact Assessment of the Incidence of HIV/AIDS on Human Capital Development and Economic Growth in Nigeria
Diyoke, Kenneth - 2023
This paper examines the burden of HIV/AIDS on income groups (upper and lower income earners) in Nigeria, its impacts on … Nigeria. Accordingly, stationarity test was carried out on the variables used in the estimation. Furthermore, in line with Lo … pressure on the income earners in Nigeria, especially those in the lower income group the study therefore recommend that effort …
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704338
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Income convergence prospects in Europe : assessing the role of human capital dynamics
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Havettová, Miroslava; Lábaj, … - 2012
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How taxes and spending on education influence economic growth in Poland
Konopczyński, Michał - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 329-347
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and four types of taxes and human capital investment. We primarily rely on an exogenous growth model that merges the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model, augmented with learning-by-doing and spillover-effects, with selected elements...
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Estimating the long-term economic impacts of the Spanish universities on the national economy
Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Pérez García, … - 2015
Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on output, income and employment deriving from the...
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Does human capital constrain the impact of foreign direct investment and remittances on economic growth in Ghana?
Agbola, Frank Wogbe - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 19/21, pp. 2853-2862
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Is foreign direct investment a real driving force of economic growth? : a panel data analysis
Khalilov, Latif; Yi, Chae-Deug - In: Central European journal of economic modelling and … 12 (2020) 3, pp. 273-299
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