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R & D sector outsourcing, human capital formation and growth in the context of developed versus developing economies

Basu, Sujata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

An advanced economy relies on innovation activity for its further technology improvement. On the other hand a backward … economy depends on both imitation from the world technology frontier and innovation activities - innovation being more skilled … innovation-only regime to an imitation-innovation regime. I show that dependence on imitation activities rises and as a …

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Adult Education in Turkey: Stylized Facts, Determinants and Further Issues

Dinçer, N. Nergiz; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on individuals engaging in adult education using the Adult Education Survey (AES) conducted by TurkStat for the first time. This way we provide the first evidence on the determinants of participation in adult education in a developing country, Turkey. Our...

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Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...

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Poor’s behaviour and inequality traps: the role of human capital

Lombardo, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

, instead of the assumption of markets imperfections, by introducing a methodological innovation which connects the presence of …

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Institutionally Induced Human Capital Vintages and Economic Growth in Transition

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Ganev, Kaloyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we introduce additional parameters of the economic environment related to some notion of “distance” to institutions in a simple formal model. This distance could be viewed as an uneven spatial distribution (or coverage) of institutions with respect to population distribution....

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Экономический рост: образование как фактор производства

Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of the possible impact of human capital on economic growth in transition economies of Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Hungary during the period of 1990-2007. This research defines place and role of human capital in the process of transition...

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Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Welfare Consequences of Asymmetric Growth

Murphy, Daniel P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A common presumption is that increased growth in the aggregate enhances the welfare of both the rich and the poor. I show that instead, as the rich get richer, the welfare of the poor may decline if the underlying growth is asymmetric. There are two distinct and complementary explanations:...

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Effectiveness of HRD for developing SMEs in South Asia

Ahmed, Vaqar; Wahab, Mohammad Abdul; Mahmood, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

questions for the national governments in the context of employable skills, space for entrepreneurship, innovation and economic …

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Economic Growth and The Quality of Human Capital

Laabas, Belkacem; Weshah, Razzak - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We calibrate an endogenous growth model to study the effect of the quality of human capital on productivity growth in a sample of thirty developed and developing countries for the period 1980 to 2007. We measure quality of human capital by relative cognitive skills. These are country scores in...

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