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sizable effect on productivity growth.According to my estimates, moreover, the social returns to investment in human capital …This paper surveys the empirical literature on human capital and productivity and summarizes the results of my own work …
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sizable effect on productivity growth. According to my estimates, moreover, the social returns to investment in human capital …This paper surveys the empirical literature on human capital and productivity and summarizes the results of my own work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804600
We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850143
We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851333
our series and a number of previously available data sets and examine their performance in several growth specifications … growth regressions. Using an extension of the classical errors in variables model, we construct a set of meta-estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582709
We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010836462
our series and a number of previously available data sets and examine their performance in several growth specifications … growth regressions. Using an extension of the classical errors in variables model, we construct a set of meta-estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498069
much better than the Barro and Lee (1996) or Nehru <I>et al.</I> (1995) series in a number of growth specifications. We … on the (lack of) relationship between educational investment and growth. Using our preferred empirical specification, we … also show that the contribution of TFP to cross-country productivity differentials is substantial and that its importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045843
the quantity and quality of human capital in stimulating productivity growth for a panel of 89 countries over the period …Both the quality and quantity of human capital are important for growth. Although the quality aspects of human capital … may have greater potential in explaining growth, given that the quantity effects of human capital have been found to be …
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innovation, this paper empirically investigates whether the contribution of human capital to productivity growth depends on the …The role of human capital composition has been given importance in the most recent endogenous growth models. Assuming … importance of composition effects of human capital on growth in developing countries relative to their developed counterparts …
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