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We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity, such as lower educational enrollment rates for girls than...
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We modify the concept of the middle-income trap (MIT) against the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the (future) challenges of automation (creating the concept of the "MIT 2.0") and discuss the implications for developing Asia. In particular, we analyze the impacts of...
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Over the 1948-2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...
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fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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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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This paper considers institutional problems associated with human capital return on the Russian labor market.The relevance of the research is associated with low returns on human capital on the Russian labor market and the need to create institutional conditions favorable to unlocking the...
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This paper considers institutional problems associated with human capital return on the Russian labor market.The relevance of the research is associated with low returns on human capital on the Russian labor market and the need to create institutional conditions favorable to unlocking the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081959