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Foreign Direct Investment, Firm-Level Capabilities and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Kenyan Manufacturing Industry

Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm-level capabilities in human capital development. It undertakes a detailed descriptive comparison of human capital and other firm-level capabilities generated by both foreign and...

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Human Capital and Macroeconomic Growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1997. An Update

Marin, Dalia; Koman, Reinhard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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Determinants of long-run regional productivity: the role of R&D, human capital and public infrastructure

Bronzini, Raffaello; Piselli, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2006

In this paper we estimate the long-run relationship between regional total factor productivity, R&D, human capital and public infrastructure between 1980 and 2001. We take advantage of recent developments panel cointegration techniques that control for endogeneity of regressors to estimate...

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Investments in Intangible Assets and Australia’s Productivity Growth — Sectoral Estimates

Barnes, Paula - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2010

This Productivity Commission staff working paper (by Paula Barnes) examines sectoral investment in intangible assets in Australia following on from a previous paper on an examination of intangibles assets in the market sector as a whole. It highlights some significant issues relating to the...

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The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China's Transitional Labor Markets.

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Chinese urban workers are no longer shielded from market forces. They are bearing the brunt of the adjustment costs as enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China's rapidly changing urban labor environment. The...

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Assessing the Problem of Human Capital Mismatch in Transition Economies

Druska, Viliam; Jeong, Byeong ju; Kejak, Michal; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

In transition economies, there may be a significant mismatch between the types of skills that workers possess and the types of skills that the new economy demands. We consider this problem of human capital mismatch along the dimensions of training type (holding the level) and occupation. We...

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Patterns of Human Capital Development in Russia: Meeting the Challenge of Market Reforms and Globalization

Soboleva, Irina - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 235-257

This paper examines post-Soviet reforms on human capital development in Russia. The primitivization of economy in the first decade of reforms resulted in growing underemployment of skilled labour that drove out two streams of brain drain, viz. one, through classical emigration, and two, through...

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Does It Pay to Invest in Education in Croatia?

Vujčić, Boris; Šošić, Vedran - Ekonomski Fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu - 2007

Countries of Central and Eastern Europe experienced a rapid increase of return to education with the advent of the transition. This is well-documented for most of the countries but, until now, there were no empirical studies of the dynamics of wage premiums in post-transition Croatia. This...

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Wages Equal Productivity. Fact or Fiction?

Biesebroeck, Johannes Van - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

If labor markets operated entirely frictionless, productivity premiums associated with different worker characteristics would equal the wage premiums earned by workers possessing those characteristics. Using matched employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector of three sub-Saharan...

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Systems of Innovation and Human Capital in African Development

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Barclay, Lou Anne - United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies - 2003

conditions the emergent systems of innovation in Africa. These effectively determine the development trajectory of the region. We … advance the notion of dynamic and non-dynamic systems of innovation, the latter describing the African condition. In doing … literature on evolutionary theory and systems of innovation. We provide evidence of the colonial origins of skewed schooling …

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