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Corruption, Public Expenditure, and Human Capital Accumulation

Koikos, Spyridon - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2013

In this paper we investigate the effect of corruption on human capital accumulation through two channels. The first channel is through the effect of corruption on the public expenditure on education and the second channel is through the effect of corruption on the physical capital investment....

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Can the university save Europe?

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012

Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...

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Does Formal Education for Older Workers Increase Earnings? Analyzing Annual Data Stretching Over 25 Years

Stenberg, Anders; de Luna, Xavier; Westerlund, Olle - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2011

Governments in the US, Canada and Europe have expressed an ambition to stimulate education of older. In this paper, we analyze if there are effects on annual earnings of formal education for participants aged 42-55 at the time of enrolment in 1994-1995. The analysis explores longitudinal...

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Does Formal Education for Older Workers Increase Earnings? – Analyzing Annual Data Stretching over 25 Years

Stenberg, Anders; de Luna, Xavier; Westerlund, Olle - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

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Can the University Save Europe?

Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Can the University Save Europe?

Ritzen, Jo - 2012

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Schooling and Economic Growth: What Have We Learned?

Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2014

This paper explains why different studies present widely-varying estimates of the effect of increased schooling on … average schooling attainment raises national income directly by about 10% and indirectly by about 19%. The increases in … national income are larger than the aggregate effect of higher workers’ salaries, because schooling has external effects on …

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Human capital and growth in japan since 1970: converging to the steady state in a 1% world

Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2014

additional year of average adult schooling attainment raised GDP/adult directly and indirectly by 20 percent, and weekly hours … worked had an output elasticity of 0.5. The marginal product of schooling was double the marginal product of physical capital. …

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Human Capital's Contribution to Japan's Lost Decades

Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2013

find that each additional year of average schooling attainment during this period raised GDP/adult in Japan by 20 percent … investment from physical capital to post-secondary schooling would be a cost-effective strategy to raise growth rates. …

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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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