related to growth in production factors. Hence, there are opposing forces at work if labor as one factor is growing and the … one labor and one resource using sector and derives conditions for stable positive long run growth in per capita …

define technology as strongly labor saving if the aggregate production function of the economy exhibits decreasing … differences in the appropriate index of technology and labor. Conversely, technology is strongly labor complementary if the … production function exhibits increasing differences in the technology index and labor. The main result of the paper shows that …

multinational is constrained by the South government to transfer a certain amount of knowhow Hns and technology xns. It also … benefits from the large pool of cheaper labor, and leads the efforts of innovation in the South. Final goods and intermediate … human capital knowledge must exists, before the local human capital and imported technology become substitutes from being …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely to retire for health reasons(affordability proposition), and (ii) that health …

-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …