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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279336
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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262227
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Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282140
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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2018
Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984500
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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development: Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers
Bloom, David E.; Khoury, Alexander; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
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Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470411
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262177
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Unintended Consequences of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa; Pugatch, Todd - 2023
The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in secondary schools to evaluate its effect on student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469378
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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2013
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...
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