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Potential economic impact of COVID-19-related school closures
Cohen, Spencer; Chakravarthy, Sumathi; Bharathi, Sindhu; … - 2022
their formative years which will affect their employment opportunities and earning potential for many years after school …Severe disruptions in school education during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted children through … Analysis Project, a computable general equilibrium model, with empirical study focusing on the impact of school closures on …
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Education and growth with learning by doing
Marconi, Gabriele; Grip, Andries de - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? : evidence from EU countries
Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 2014
Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....
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Decoupling of labour productivity growth from median wage growth in Central and Eastern Europe
Schröder, Joris - 2020
The US-centred debate on the decoupling of productivity from workers' compensation has given rise to the question whether this decoupling has also taken place in other countries, and if so, to what degree. However, in-depth analyses of the extent and the underlying causes of wage-productivity...
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Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey
Kaya, Ahmet Ihsan; Çiçekçi, Cumhur - 2023
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than half of economic growth in the period 1980-2021. This is...
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The lag structure of the impact of business ownership on economic performance in OECD countries
Carree, Martin Anthony (contributor);  … - 2006 - This version: August 2006
, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure … exiting capacities and finally a stage of positive supply-side effects. The net effect is positive for employment and GDP …
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Why Is Human Capital a Driver for Economic Growth?
Daniel, Liparã - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1160-1165
This paper aims to explain if there is a link between human capital accumulation and/or formation and economic growth. In a knowledge-based economy, investing in human capital is a representative of a country’s economic power. Migration of brains or so called “brain drain” to developed...
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Post-COVID-19 economic growth scenarios for Mexico City
Quintana Romero, Luis; Mendoza González, Miguel Ángel; … - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 17 (2023) 2, pp. 162-182
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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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 … for 20-35 percent of the current variation in per-capita GDP among states, with roughly even contributions by school …
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