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Criss-Crossing Globalization : Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2014

as Japan, Spain, and the United States. Creating a new combined dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI) (covering … greenfield investments as well as mergers and acquisitions) we show that flows of FDI to Organization for Economic Cooperation …

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Human Capital, Trade Liberalization, and Income Risk

Krebs, Tom - 2016

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … between 1987 and 1998, a period in which the Mexican economy experienced substantial changes in trade policy. In a second step …, they use the variations in trade policy across different sectors and over time to estimate the link between trade policy …

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Migration, Remittances, Poverty, and Human Capital : Conceptual and Empirical Challenges

McKenzie, David J. - 2016

This paper reviews common challenges faced by researchers interested in measuring the impact of migration and remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting development practitioners in converting this research into...

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Trade and Human Capital Accumulation : Evidence from U.S. Immigrants

Domeland, Dorte - 2016

This study provides empirical evidence that trade increases on-the-job human capital accumulation by estimating the … trade on on-the-job human capital accumulation remains significant when controlling for GDP, educational attainment, and … ambiguity of whether trade increases or decreases learning-by-doing. The role of trade in generating economic growth is …

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The Return to Firm Investment in Human Capital

Almeida, Rita - 2016

In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...

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Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital : A Cross-Country Analysis of Recent Trends

Andrews, Kathryn Gilman - 2019

Using a new data set comprised of publicly available information, this paper provides cross-country evidence on domestic government spending for human capital in recent years. Creating a measure of social spending that covers the three sectors of health, education, and social protection has...

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A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Dsouza, Ritika - 2019

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures the expected future human capital of children born...

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Intergenerational Social Mobility Based on the Investments in Human Capital : Evidence of the Long-Term Results of Prospera in Health

Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo - 2019

Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, has demonstrated short- and medium-term positive effects on health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the postponement of parenthood; and increased years of schooling....

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The Nitrogen Legacy : The Long-Term Effects of Water Pollution on Human Capital

Zaveri, Esha Dilip - 2020

The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air, water, soil, and human health. This paper combines data from the Demographic and Health Survey data set across India, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal...

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Returns to Investment in Education : A Decennial Review of the Global Literature

Psacharopoulos, George - 2018

Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated systematically since the 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several compilations in the literature. This paper reviews and highlights the latest trends and patterns based on a...

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