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von Weizsäcker, Robert K. (contributor) - 1998

Das Thema Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum hat Tradition. Während in den sechziger Jahren die Impulse direkt aus der … präsentiert wurden, unternehmen den Versuch, das bisweilen etwas eklektische Wechselspiel zwischen Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum … Einschätzung der Bedeutung des Faktors Bildung für gesamtwirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge heraus, sondern sie stellen die …

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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth: Reconciling theory and evidence

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012

We set up a simple overlapping generation model that allows us to distinguish between life expectancy and active life expectancy. We show that individuals optimally adjust to a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. When...

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Education and economic development: an empirical perspective

Gundlach, Erich - In: Journal of economic development 26 (2001) 1, pp. 37-60

There is surprisingly little macroeconomic empirical research which would support a presumed link between education and development. I identify three major reasons why it remains difficult to estimate the economic relevance of education as a determinant of growth and development. First, most...

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Education, economic growth and measured income inequality

Rehme, Günther - 2006

In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2006

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Education, economic growth and measured income inquality

Rehme, Günther - 2006

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

Schultz, T. Paul - 1999

Regressions across countries from 1960 to 1995 are discussed to document African poor performance in terms of infant and child mortality, life expectation, and school enrollment rates, controlling for national income, women's and men's schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that...

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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2001

This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...

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Von der Transformation zur europäischen Integration: Wachstumsfaktor Bildung besser nutzen - ein Tagungsbericht

Heimpold, Gerhard - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 23 (2017) 2, pp. 39-40

Unter dem Titel 'Von der Transformation zur europäischen Integration: Wachstumsfaktor Bildung besser nutzen' hat das … Deutschland am 22. Februar 2017 Forschungsergebnisse zur besseren Nutzung von Bildung als Wachstumsfaktor vorgestellt und … langfristig das Wirtschaftswachstum treiben. Andere Länder investierten deutlich mehr in Humankapital als Deutschland. Dies sollte …

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Volkswirtschaftliche Folgekosten unzureichender Bildung: Eine makroökonomische Projektion

Piopiunik, Marc; Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 04, pp. 24-30

nur unzureichende Bildung erhält. In einer aktuellen Studie, die das ifo Institut im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung … Bildung belaufen sich über den Lebenszeitraum der heute geborenen Kinder auf rund 2,8 Billionen € – mehr als das gesamte …

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