The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

We investigate the spatial distribution of TFP growth rates using exploratory spatial data analysis and other spatial … spatial autocorrelation in TFP growth rates, indicating that high and low values tend to be clustered in space. We also find … indicative of a tendency towards clustering over time, a conclusion reinforced by our finding of two clusters of high TFP growth …

misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial linkages in standard empirical models of economic growth. Our dataset consists … of TFP estimates for 73 countries over the period 1960-2000, and we find that TFP growth rates and levels are positively … the Nelson and Phelps (1966) model shows that the impact of being located close to a country with high TFP growth rates is …

education and language. When the EU made the borderlines between European countries less visible, the language boundary remained … "communication EU" as well as the "competency EU". Belonging should be reinforced by aiming the content of education at underlining … mobility should be increased by more transparency on the value added in learning in Higher Education in different EU countries …

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to …

aggregate and per capita GDP as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth, where "human capital" is the engine of … growth. By human capital we mean an intangible asset, best thought of as a stock of embodied and disembodied knowledge … comprising education, information, entrepreneurship, and productive and innovative skills, which is formed through investments in …