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human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on Austria and Germany we augment the Solow model to allow for the … of human capital of Austria and Germany by weighting workers of different schooling levels with their respective wage … quantifies how wages change with years of schooling. We find that the time series evidence on Austria and Germany is not …
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as an accumulable factor. In a study on Austria and Germany we augment the Solow model to allow for the accumulation of … series evidence on Austria and Germany is not consistent with a human-capital-augmented Solow model. Factor accumulation … appears to be less (and not more) able to account for the cross-country growth performance of Austria and Germany when human …
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Friedrich Hayek has been one of the dominating intellectual figures of the 20th century. Hayek, together with Gunnar Myrdal, received the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the...
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Before economists and sociologists came up with their own definitions of the term "capital", it was commonly understood as money invested in businesses by their owners or shareholders, and it continues to be understood this way in everyday business practice. In a recent article, Geoffrey Hodgson...
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Human capital theory is the dominant approach for understanding personal income distribution. According to this theory, individual income is the result of "human capital". The idea is that human capital makes people more productive, which leads to higher income. But is this really the case? This...
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The common interpretation of Carl Menger's take on capital theory rests upon a few sentences in his Principles of Economics. His later monograph on the topic, Zur Theorie des Kapitals (A contribution to the theory of capital), is more or less ignored, although it must be seen as a recantation of...
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