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Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity
Maravalle, Alessandro - 2023
Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the highest spending shares among OECD countries. However, educational outcomes remain poor and firms struggle to fill their vacancies, particularly in technical and scientific positions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014324643
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Human Capital Spending, Inequality, and Growth in Middle-Income Asia
Abrigo, Michael R.M. - 2018
Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917816
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Human Capital, Income Growth and Inequality : The Issue of Convergence in Indian States During 1960-2005
Ray Chaudhuri, Santanu - 2018
This paper tries to concentrate on the issue of convergence under neoclassical paradigm across Indian states through the passage of human capital education variables during the period between 1960 and 2005. The paper tries to address the issue in a broad landscape of cross section, pooled and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919053
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Human capital spending, inequality, and growth in middle-income Asia
Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Lee, Sang-hyop; Park, Donghyun - 2017
Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756551
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The Total Return to Higher Education : Is There Underinvestment For Economic Growth and Development?
McMahon, Walter W. - 2019
The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers a new scholarly contribution where firm and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869715
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Making New Zealand's economic growth more inclusive
Carey, David - 2015
New Zealand generally performs well in terms of economic and social inclusion. It has high employment rates, and education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material deprivation and multiple barriers to economic and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399645
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Measuring Human Capital
Angrist, Noam - 2019
Students around the world are going to school but are not learning – an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the world's population from 2000 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891976
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
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The role of ICT in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth in Africa
Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments (GMM). The following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060740
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The Role of ICT in Modulating the Effect of Education and Lifelong Learning on Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Africa
S. Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2019
This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments (GMM). The following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863564