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HUMAN CAPITAL AND GROWTH: NEW EVIDENCES FROM AFRICAN DATA

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Savard, Luc; Savy, Bernice E. - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2009

Economic theory long acknowledged a positive relation between human capital and economic growth (Smith, 1776; Becker … process of economic growth. The data also reveal a conditional convergence process for the 22 African countries considered …

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Human Capital, Country Size, and North-South Manufacturing Multinational Enterprises

Zhang, Zhang , Kevin Honglin - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 53 (2000) 2, pp. 237-260

A model of North-South multinational enterprises (MNEs) is constructed in which both horizontal and vertical MNEs anse endogenously. While honizontal MNEs are more active when host countries become more similar in national income and human capital, vertical MNEs are encouraged by cheap unskilled...

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Economic Literacy: An International Comparison

Jappelli, Tullio - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009

Many studies show that most people are not financially literate and are unfamiliar with even the most basic economic concepts. However, the evidence on the determinants of economic literacy is scant. This paper uses international panel data on 55 countries, merging indicators of economic...

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Dynamics of social trust and human capital in the learning process: The case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968-2005

Yamamura, Eiji - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72 (2009) 1, pp. 377-389

This paper examined the ways and the extent to which human capital and social trust are associated with the learning process of a manager in making operations decisions through experience. To this end, using a data set originally and purposively constructed by the author, I investigated the...

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Gender differences in productivity rewards in Italy: the role of human capital

Addabbo, Tindara; Favaro, Donata; Magrini, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010

In this paper we evaluate the gender wage gap component due to differences in characteristics’ rewards in Italy. The main focus is on the relationship between human capital characteristics and gender differences in rewards. We propose a methodology that combines the quantile regression...

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R&D, human capital and environmental externality in an endogenous growth model

Ikazaki, Daisuke - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 1, pp. 29-46

This study constructs an endogenous growth model that incorporates the R&D sector, the education sector, and … some parameter restrictions are satisfied, then the per-capita growth rate will become positive in the long run without … environmental harm. Secondly, problems related to scale effects are considered. In typical growth models, an economy with a larger …

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Regional economy and manufacturing update

Dudley, William - In: Speech (2010) Jul 22

Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

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EU Policies and African Human Capital Development

Nyarko, Yaw - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2010

papers by many authors have indicated that a channel for human capital growth has been, paradoxically, the possibility of the … of the EU policies may enable faster Human Capital growth in Africa, while, at the same time, being beneficial to the EU …

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Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

Ikegami, Munenobu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

the decrease in long-term household agricultural output growth compared to the contribution of decreased accumulation of … growth is larger than the contribution of decreased accumulation of each productive asset. …

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Financial Constraints, Endogenous Educational Choices and Self-Selection of Migrants

Assuncao, Juliano; Carvalho, Leandro - RAND - 2010

The Roy model predicts that migrants will be disproportionately drawn from the lower half of the educational distribution of the sending country if the sending country has a higher return to schooling. However, Mexican immigrants in the U.S. tend to be disproportionately drawn from the middle of...

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