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What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …

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Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a brawn-based economy

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Hassan, Nazmul - 2010

levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect …We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model …

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Avaliando o desempenho da indústria brasileira

Mendonça, Márcio Jorge; Pereira, Rodrigo Mendes; … - 2022

In this study we investigate the performance of Brazilian industry based on productivity and efficiency indicators. We associate productivity with the concept of total factor productivity (TFP) while efficiency is measured based on the stochastic frontier production model that indicates how far...

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Sectoral decomposition of convergence in labor productivity: A re-examination from a new dataset

Dieppe, Alistair; Matsuoka, Hideaki - 2022

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to Ø-convergence, using a newly constructed eightsector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...

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Digital transformation, development and productivity in developing countries: Is artificial intelligence a curse or a blessing?

Aly, Heidi - In: Review of Economics and Political Science (REPS) 7 (2022) 4, pp. 238-256

Purpose The entire world is now witnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is indeed altering the lives of the many in both developing and developed countries. Massive digital transformations are affecting the economies of those countries and are bringing with...

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Diversification of the competitive position of the advanced technology sector in EU

Juchniewicz, Małgorzata; Łada, Magdalena - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 56 (2020) 1, pp. 31-41

The high-technology sector has a particular importance in the development of modern national economies. It affects both the level of competitiveness and innovation. This was a prerequisite for the study to assess the competitive position of the advanced technology sector in the European Union...

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Does an increase in education quality cause developing countries to catch up?

Goczek, Łukasz; Witkowski, Bartosz; Witkowska, Ewa - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 58 (2022) 4, pp. 393-408

We investigate whether increasing the education quality causes increases in economic growth allowing poorer countries to catch up. To this end, we extend Nelson-Phelps's classic paper by introducing differences in education quality (proxied by students' performance on the Program for...

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Competitive potential vs. the competitive position of the high-tech sector in European Union countries

Juchniewicz, Małgorzata; Łada, Magdalena - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 58 (2022) 4, pp. 371-380

Despite a considerable body of research and gathering information on advanced technologies, there is still a study gap concerning its importance from the perspective of international competitiveness. Therefore, a question arises: what affects the competitive potential and how does it contribute...

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The Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on the Evolution of the Credit Risk Rate

Istrate, Luminița Gabriela; Ionescu, Bogdan Ștefan - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 17 (2018) 1, pp. 122-136

The dynamics of the real economy is a major driver of the evolution of arrears at the level of the pool of loans granted to non-financial companies, completed by the financial pressure induced by the monetary conditions. Lending allows on the one hand providing resources for companies that need...

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Discretionary Grants and Distributive Politics: Evidence from Spain

Jarocinska, Elena - In: Comparative Economic Studies 64 (2022) 4, pp. 681-709

We study empirically whether the allocation of discretionary grants across Spanish regions is related to the number of swing voters and loyal voters of the ruling party. We estimate the number of swing and loyal voters from survey data. When estimating the number of swing voters, we account in a...

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