QUALITY-ADJUSTED HUMAN CAPITAL AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
type="main" xml:lang="en"> <p>This article examines the influence of quality-adjusted educational attainment on growth and tests whether it facilitates the transfer of technology developed at the frontier for a panel of 60 countries. Using outcomes of pathogen stress as instruments, the results show that quality-adjusted educational attainment and its interaction with distance to the frontier play important roles for growth. (JEL I20, O30, O40)
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2014
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Authors: | ISLAM, MD. RABIUL ; ANG, JAMES B. ; MADSEN, JAKOB B. |
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Economic Inquiry. - Western Economic Association International - WEAI, ISSN 0095-2583. - Vol. 52.2014, 2, p. 757-777
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Western Economic Association International - WEAI |
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