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Wagner, Marcus - 2007

these issues for three high-tech industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and electronic design …

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Panel data evidence on the role of education in the growth-volatility relationship

Kedir, Abbi Mamo; Bani, Nor Yasmin Mhd - 2012

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Gender gaps in education : the long view

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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004

achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Determinants of inter-country internet diffusion rates

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Leiter, Daniel B. - 2008

This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009

will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

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