A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...

A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...

Die Berechnung des Produktionspotentials nach der Kommissionsmethodea beruht auf einer Cobb-Douglas-Produktionsfunktion mit den Produktionsfaktoren Arbeit und Kapital, wobei abnehmende partielle Grenzproduktivitäten unterstellt werden. Die dritte Komponente der Cobb-Douglas-Produktionsfunktion...

In jüngster Zeit ist deutlich geworden, dass Griechenland trotz der Finanzhilfen durch den IWF und die EU seinen finanziellen Verpflichtungen nur schwer nachkommen kann. Außerdem wird bezweifelt, dass die griechische Regierung die ausgehandelten Auflagen vollständig erfüllt, sodass...

Im Verlauf der vergangenen Jahre sind die Nettokapitalimporte der Schwellenländer stark gestiegen. Dabei sind die Zuflüsse sowohl struktureller als auch zyklischer Natur. Strukturell haben sich die makroökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen mit inzwischen zumeist solide Staatsfinanzen, hohen...

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

We suggest a new way to quantify the growth effects of capital mobility. We find that for reasonable parameter values, capital mobility has a large impact on income growth.

Most empirical studies of long run growth refer to one of the two seminal contributions by Robert Solow (1956, 1957). His work shows that in order to estimate the relative roles of factor accumulation and technology in development, an a priori identification assumption is needed about the nature...

The role of human capital has so far not been well documented at the macroeconomic level. Many empirical studies lack a consistent theoretical foundation and there are measurement problems due to a very narrow concept of human capital focusing on formal education. Future empirical research...