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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013
causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?
Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024
Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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It's all in the stars : the Chinese zodiac and the effects of parental investments on offspring's cognitive and noncognitive skill development
Tan, Chih Ming; Wang, Xiao; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
national vocational qualification framework, while ignoring the evidence of success of the alternative global model of TVET …, the Germanic one. The paper begins by spelling out what the goals of the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF … Vocational Qualification Frameworks, both in advanced as well as emerging market economies, given that over 100 countries are at …
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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A gender analysis of the impact of human capital development on economic growth in Nigeria
Happinessobi, Chibuzor - 2023
This study analysed the impact of education human capital development on economic growth in Nigeria from 1980 to 2020. The study specifically used secondary school enrolment as a comprehensive measure of education human capital, while life expectancy at birth was used as a measure of health...
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Population, innovation, competition and growth with and without human capital investment
Bucci, Alberto - 2009
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Why Germany has such a weak growth performance
Siebert, Horst - 2003
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