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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011
? We develop a model of human capital accumulation that emphasizes productivity and life expectancy differences across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147926
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The strategic role of the Food Research Institute in productivity enhancement and the private sector development in Ghana
Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Private Sector Development Project (PSDP) was a culmination of the renewed commitment of the Government of Ghana to accelerate the pace of development of Ghana’s private sector. The project was also a direct result of the Business Community’s own assessment of Lingering issues which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295279
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in explaining … schooling in poor than in rich countries consistent with the data. These results highlight the importance of productivity and … development in education, emphasizing the crucial role of productivity improvements in poor countries relative to often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850127
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2014
labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850131
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
use the model to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850133
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Restuccia, Diego - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014
labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075148
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 824-841
labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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IS THERE A PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE GROWTH CONTRIBUTION OF IT CAPITAL STOCK AT THE STATE-LEVEL IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN 1977 AND 19...
MIRIBEL, Frédéric - In: Region et Developpement 24 (2006), pp. 109-133
at the state level. The results indicate a positive contribution to state productivity growth that amounts to 10% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883876
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910757
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Comparative advantage and moonlighting
Fuller, David L.; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Auray, Stéphane - 2019
The proportion of multiple jobholders (moonlighters) is negatively correlated with productivity (wages) in cross … seemingly contradictory facts. An income effect explains the negative correlation with productivity while a comparative advantage … data. There are three exogenous driving forces: productivity, number of children and the proportion of skilled workers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015679