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Inclusive Growth Through Creation of Human and Social Capital

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

through schooling. Educated individuals are interested in dialogue and conversation. Interaction enables people to build trust … schooling and/or social inclusion. Creation of human and social capital is the basis for inclusive growth. The predictions of …

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility

Piacentini, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper investigates the presence of a network externality which might explain the persistence of low schooling … networks. We test empirically whether young migrants�schooling decisions are affected by the presence of covillagers at … the propensity of young migrants to pursue schooling while in the city. This fi�nding suggests that policies seeking to …

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Escolaridad y trabajo infantil: patrones y determinantes de la asignación del tiempo de niños y adolescentes en Lima Metropolitana

Rodriguez, Jose; Vargas, Silvana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

accumulation of schooling among children and adolescents. Methodologically, the investigation had two stages. The first one, based … on national household survey data, analyzed the evolution and trends of child labor and schooling during recent years …

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Business services and the changing structure of European economic growth

Kox, Henk L.M.; Rubalcaba, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A pervasive trend that characterised the past two decades of European economic growth is that the share in the economy of commercial services, and particularly business services, grows monotonically, and this mainly to the expense of the manufacturing sector. The structural shift reflects a...

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Human Capital and Economic Growth: The Quest for the Most Relevant Level of Education in Pakistan

Sultan, Faisal; Tehseen, Syed; Arif, Imtiaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The study examines the role of human capital in the economic growth of Pakistan by using primary, secondary and higher education enrolments as proxies for human capital in three different specifications. The idea behind these models is to find out the most relevant level of education in terms of...

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Education and Economic Growth: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Benos, Nikos; Zotou, Stefania - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper surveys the literature that examines the effect of education on economic growth. Specifically, we apply meta-regression analysis to 56 studies with 979 estimates and show that there is substantial publication selection bias towards a positive impact of education on growth. Once we...

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Social Capital and Economic Growth: A case study

Chakrabarty, Aritra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Financial income and parental education are two determinants of child well-being rooted in a long tradition of sociological and economic research. These resources have been titled financial and human capital respectively. James Coleman had suggested a third type of capital which can have equally...

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The long-run Relationship between Human Capital and Economic Growth in Sweden

Awel, Ahmed Mohammed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The relationship between education and economic growth has been one of the fundamental themes of economic analysis. Despite the growing interest in the relationship between growth and education, and despite the strong theoretical foundations for a key role of education/human capital in economic...

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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...

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