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Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth : Theory and Evidence from India

Das, Pranab Kumar - 2016

usher in lies at the core of the demographic dividends. However, low human capital, poor health and inadequate physical … endogenous growth model applied to the Indian macroeconomic data, as to whether public expenditures in education, health and …. We deploy a Structural Vector Autoregressive Model on data for shares of public expenditure on education and health as …

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What Accounts for the Us Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century : The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

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Are Microloans Bad for Growth?

Emerson, Patrick M. - 2010

This paper constructs a two-period overlapping generations model of human capital investment decisions where a microloan program designed to finance entrepreneurial activities is active. It is shown that, in the presence of human capital externalities (social returns to education) there exists a...

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Unemployment and Productivity Growth : An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Pannenberg, Markus; Bräuninger, Michael - 2021

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns : Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment

Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2014

The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...

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Human Capital and Self-Employment in India : An Empirical Analysis for Different Cohorts

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Ray, Shaswata - 2022

The ambiguity in the relationship between self-employment and educational attainment is well documented in the literature. Using an extensive individual level dataset from Periodic Labor Force Survey, we estimate the probability of being self-employed in India based on educational attainments....

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Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Eckstein, Zvi - 2009

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....

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Social Gradients in Employment During and after the Covid-19 Pandemic

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; … - 2023

We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially skewed effects of the crisis through its early phases, we find no long-term effects on employees...

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Structural Reform in Germany

Krebs, Tom - 2016

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of full-day child care and full-day schooling, and...

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