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International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Egger, Hartmut - 2006

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, … - 2021

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318782

Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2008

capacity, the increased strategic importance of natural resources and the increased interregional trade flow. I also …

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Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy

Falkinger, Josef - 2021

This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium analysis at the industry and the macroeconomic level. The paper endogenously determines whether an economy is information-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements...

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Learning During the Pandemic : Evidence from Uzbekistan

Iqbal, Syedah; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2023

effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allows assessing change in learning …

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Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan

Aldashev, Alisher - 2012

In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly … should facilitate regional income convergence in Kazakhstan and improve living standards in depressed regions …

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Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan : Ols and Instrumental Variables Approach

Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - 2006

This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies … underestimate the true rates of return. The results indicate that the returns to schooling in Kazakhstan have increased with … transition. This may reflect the relative scarcities of highly educated people in Kazakhstan with human capital that employers …

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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(S)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …

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Sometimes, Winners Lose : Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan

Gang, Ira N. - 2014

formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan – we investigate their …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046646

Brain Drain-Induced Brain Gain and the Bhagwati Tax : Are Early and Recent Paradigms Compatible?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018

Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper examines whether the early view regarding brain drain's (BD) negative impact on source countries and the Bhagwati tax (BT) associated with it, is compatible with the recent...

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