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Education and Social Cohesion for Economic Growth
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2017
Relevant theoretical underpinnings suggest that higher education, continuous professional development and training … progress can create a virtuous cycle of productivity outcomes and economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967264
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What happened to the knowledge economy? ICT, intangible investment and Britain's productivity record revisited
Marrano, Mauro Giorgio; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2007
appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … labour shares, growth in labour and total factor productivity, and capital deepening. We find (a) MGVA was understated by … productivity and capital deepening has been understated and growth in total factor productivity overstated (e) total factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284188
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The impact of TFP growth on the unemployment rate : does on-the-job training matter?
Moreno-Galbis, Eva - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 8, pp. 1692-1713
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009706433
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Migrants and economic performance in the EU15 : their allocations across countries, industries and job types and their (productivity) growth impacts at the sectoral and regional le...
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2010
Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … industries and regions and output and productivity growth. We do obtain robust results with respect to the positive impact of the … - on the relationship between productivity growth and the shares of migrants and of high-skilled migrants in overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392342
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China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331384
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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262227
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A note on economic growth and human capital in Eastern Europe
Foders, Federico - 1998
This paper addresses the poor economic performance of Eastern Europe in the 1990s and the future development potential of the region in the light of the theories of economic growth and human capital and their empirical tests. It concludes that Eastern Europe is likely to have fallen into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265698
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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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China's overt economic rise and latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285739
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The western European marriage pattern and economic development
Foreman-Peck, James - 2009
For several centuries, women's age at first marriage in Western Europe was higher than in the east (and in the rest of the world). Over the same period Western Europe began slow but sustained economic development relative to elsewhere. A model based on the economics of the household explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288829