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Intangible capital and wages: An analysis of wage gaps across occupations and genders in Czech Republic, Finland and Norway

Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - 2011

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, we explore the wage differentials and the...

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Human Capital and Economic Growth - How Strong is the Nexus?

Škare, Marinko; Lacmanovic, Sabina - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 612-633

inclusive wealth index and ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees as proxy for human capital stock. Data from the … global workplace and inclusive wealth reports are used in order to provide an international comparison of the link between … human capital and inclusive wealth. Cross country comparison show human capital largerly contribute to the inclusive wealth …

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Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal

McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Hanley, Nick - 2024

nation's assets (their inclusive wealth), as a better indicator of sustainable economic development. We provide the first … Environment Programme - to estimating changes in wealth. Our paper reveals important inconsistencies in how these organisations … framework linking changes in a nation's wealth to future well-being. At the most extreme, countries that perform the worst …

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Examining the "natural resource curse" and the impact of various forms of capital in small tourism and natural resource-dependent economies

Petar, Kurecic; Kokotovic, Filip - In: Economies 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-24

The problem of the relevance of human and natural capital, as well as the potential adverse effect of natural capital on economic growth, has gained increased attention in development economics. The aim of this paper is to assess, theoretically and empirically, the relevance of several forms of...

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...

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Why Do Firms Pay an Overtime Premium?

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000

We develop a rationale for the payment by firms of a wage premium on marginal, or overtime, weekly hours. We examine wage-hours contracts within the framework of a two-period specific human capital model with asymmetric information. The wage premium serves to achieve contract efficiency. For...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

An individual?s human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker?workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...

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Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...

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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive politics in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

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