Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,860
Cover Image
Skills at work : how skills and their use matter in the labour market
Quintini, Glenda - 2014
individual’s labour market outcomes. However, a skilled population is not enough to achieve high and inclusive growth, as skills … numerous types of skills, the Survey of Adult Skills offers a unique opportunity to advance knowledge in this area and this …, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments. It also shows how skills use, not only proficiency, affects a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392970
Cover Image
Infrastructure, human capital development and economic growth in transitional countries
Tsaurai, Kunofiwa; Ndou, Adam - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 22 (2019) 1, pp. 33-52
This study investigated the impact of infrastructure and human capital development on economic growth in transitional economies. It also explored whether the interaction between infrastructural and human capital development enhanced economic growth in the transitional economies. Although the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020286
Cover Image
Human Capital, Urbanization and Dynamics of Economic Growth and Development
Mehmood, Rashid; Zia; Lal, Irfan - 2022
Process of economic growth and development has been shifted towards new strategies of entrepreneurship, institutional developments and market development. The shifting of development process towards new strategies needs human capital, developed infrastructure and effective policy reforms. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290234
Cover Image
Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth : Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data
Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew John - 2015
We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029441
Cover Image
From Ghana to America : the skill content of jobs and economic development
Bello, Salvatore Lo; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019
new stylized facts. First, while developed countries tend to have jobs more intensive in nonroutine cognitive skills than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997270
Cover Image
Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
Cover Image
Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586
Cover Image
Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
Cover Image
Educating in the East, emigrating to the West?
Kancs, D'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010
This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524024
Cover Image
Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507364