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Braila, C.; Turrini, A. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

In this paper we illustrate the possible normative relevance of the links between human capital and financial assets via an example related to growth. When the financial structure is complete, growth is indeterminate because individual allocations between human capital and a tradable asset are...

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Train to gain – The benefits of employee-financed training in Germany

Pfeifer, Harald - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Individual returns on continuing vocational training have been in the focus of many empirical and theoretical papers. Most of the works do not explicitly discuss returns to training that is financed fully or partly by the employee. This seems surprising since several publicly funded programs to...

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Temporary Migration, Human capital and Language Fluency of Migrants

Dustmann, Christian - Department of Economics, University College London (UCL) - 1996

This paper investigates human capita; investments of migrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by contract or by their own choice. the first part of the paper develops a model, distinguishing between migrants who immigrate on a fixed contract, and migrants who choose their...

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EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL

Kaasa, Anneli - Majandusteaduskond, Tartu Ülikool - 2007

This paper investigates how different dimensions of social capital influence innovation output. The novelty of the paper lies in the fact that for measuring social capital, instead of one overall index, six factors are constructed of 20 indicators using principal components analysis. Then, human...

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INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMAN CAPITAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Parts, Eve - Majandusteaduskond, Tartu Ülikool - 2003

One of the main tasks of the transition economies is to catch up with the advanced levels of highly developed economies. The lack of social capital is a major impediment to this process, as it does not allow taking advantage of the comparatively high level of human capital in these countries....

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Aging, Health and Aggregate Medical Care Spending in France

Grignon, Michel - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2005

I investigate the role of education on health, using country level data and the production frontier framework suggested … care systems operating in countries which underinvested in education in the past. The relationship between education and … health changes around an average value of 8 years of education per individual: above that level, the return of years of …

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Output specific efficiencies: The case of UK private secondary schools

Gstach, Dieter; Somers, Andrew; Warning, Susanne - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2003

Based on regularly published data we quantitatively assess the efficiency of UK secondary, private schools in providing quantity vs. quality of graduates on a per output basis. In economic terms the primary question is whether indeed an increase in the quantity of graduates with the observed...

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Deprivation of females in Kondh-dominated villages in rural Orissa: evidence and economic explanations

Tisdell, Clem; Roy, Kartik; Ghose, Ananda - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 2 (2003) 2, pp. 167-186

deprivation within their families are examined and the entitlements of female and male children are compared and analysed. Because …

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Innovation Balance Matrix: an application in the Arab countries

Abouzeedan, Adli; Busler, Michael - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 2 (2006) 3, pp. 270-280

Economies have different levels of entrepreneurial activities depending on the availability of tangible as well as intangible resources. In their working paper, Abouzeedan and Busler (2004) established a new type of capital, adding up the components of the most important types of capital. These...

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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 …

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