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The paper aims to study, reveal and understand one of the most important production factor, considered by some as being labor, understood nowadays as human capital. It is important to reveal and to demonstrate that the investment into human capital will have results with a very high return on...
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To emphasize the importance and influence of human capital on economic growth of a country and also to base decisions … 1994-2008) characterized at macroeconomic level, both by recession and economic growth periods. <p> There were also …
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immigrants obtained more education than 2nd generation non-visible minority immigrants and non-immigrants, their performance as a … than non-immigrants and especially non-visible minority immigrants for any given level of education. The paper thus … minority groups for any given level of education are likely to continue be used as justification for more affirmative action …
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This paper considers the effects of the local human capital level and the presence of higher education institutions on … college degree, and the relative importance of higher education institutions is measured by the share of the population … relative importance of higher education institutions. Furthermore, these effects persist when these two measures are considered …
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Is income equality a precondition for higher school performance and higher educational mobility? Or is the opposite true? We test empirically whether school performance and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is depending on income equality on the local level. Using Swiss...
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technological competition, military rivalry going in the background. How can India maintain growth rates at such a high level? What …
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This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991)....
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This paper develops a model in which it is possible to evaluate alternatives of human capital …nancing. The alternative systems under discussion are: total feeing; graduates taxes and uniform taxes (this can be associated to the scheme presently used in the Argentina universitary system)....
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Cornerstone economic growth models as the Solow-Swan model and their modern extensions normally assume the rate of … population growth as exogenous without any explanation of the links between economic growth and most important demographic … ingredients of an economic growth model. The model includes two ways of learning that determinate economic growth: individual and …
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