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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

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International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Egger, Hartmut - 2006

thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

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The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting

Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2010

decomposing individual predicted wages into a skill-related part and a part unrelated to skill, where the former consists of both … observed and unobserved components. The predicted wages, associated with individual skill attributes, are sorted and classified …

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The importance of skill measurement for growth accounting

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; … - 2010

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Why Did the College Wage Premium Growth Decelerate? An Analysis of Endogenous Supply of High-Skilled Workers

Huang, Yiheng - 2020

The growth of the college wage premium decelerated after the 1980s and even more so since 2000. The deceleration challenges the skill-biased technological change theory which is the most powerful explanation for the rapid growth in the 1980s. In this research, I build a model that captures the...

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Contribution of human capital accumulation to Canadian economic growth

Bowlus, Audra J.; Park, Youngmin; Robinson, Chris - 2022

This paper quantifies the contribution of human capital accumulation to the growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) in Canada. GDP growth is decomposed into contributions from physical capital, hours worked, human capital supplied per hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot"...

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Trends in employment and wages of female and male workers in India : a task-content-of-occupations approach

Sharma, Shruti - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 1, pp. 169-199

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …

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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?

Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners … increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …

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The growth of aggregate wage earnings in Germany, 1810 - 1989

De Meulemeester, Jean-Luc; Jaoul-Grammare, Magali - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 19/21, pp. 2657-2669

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