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Human Capital, Innovation Capability and Economic Growth
Teixeira, Aurora; Fortuna, Natércia - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2003
In this paper, we study human capital effects on economic growth of Portugal from 1960 to 2001. By using VAR and … cointegration analyses, we obtain 0.42 long-run estimate for human capital elasticity, 0.30 long-run estimate for internal knowledge … between human capital and innovation capability. These estimates seem to confirm that human capital and indigenous innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059562
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A Note on Schooling in Development Accounting
Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368611
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Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction
Barmby, Tim; Bryson, Alex; Eberth, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553356
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Human Capital Intensity in Technology-Based Firms Located in Portugal: Do Foreign Multinationals Make a Difference?
Tavares, Ana Teresa; Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2005
. New evidence is provided, based on a comprehensive, large-scale survey of technology-based firms located in Portugal … development for an economy like Portugal (lagging behind in terms of human capital stock, and seeming to have lost part of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970057
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Is Human Capital a Significant Determinant of Portugal’s FDI Attractiveness?
Tavares, Ana Teresa; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
-scale survey of firms located in Portugal, and controlling for firms’ structural (i.e. size, age and industry), strategic (R&D and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031564
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Local sustainable mobility management. Are Portuguese municipalities aware?
Monteiro, Catarina Aroso; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
yet to be dealt with appropriately and in a credible way. This shortcoming is particularly acute in Portugal where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059490
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Measuring aggregate human capital in Portugal. An update up to 2001
Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2004
an increasingly knowledge based economy and an important lever of social cohesion policy. However, existing studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059495
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670541