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Complexity, Specialization, and Growth

Published by Asian Development Bank, March 2013 This paper analyzes the role of complexity in production on the level of output and on its rate of growth. We develop an endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation, where increased complexity could exert either a positive or a negative effect on the level of output but [...]

NEP: New Economics Papers- Development , edited by Mark Lee

Appropriate Technology, Human Capital and Development Accounting Date: 2012 By: Areendam Chanda Beatrice Farkas URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp1236&r=dev Over the past decade, research explaining cross country income differences has increasingly pointed to the dominant role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief that a country’s ability [...]

On International Spillovers

By  Bianco,Dominique and Niang,Abdou-Aziz MPRA Paper no.41046, February 2012 This study investigates the role of international spillovers in generating productivity gains for a panel of 24 OECD countries during the period between 1971 and 2004. We use recent techniques developed in a common factor framework to characterize the global interdependence implied by international spillovers and [...]

OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS,Volume 64 Issue 3 July 2012

Table of Contents Racial integration, ethnic diversity, and prejudice: empirical evidence from a study of the British National Party by Clive Lennox Human capital, kinship, and gender inequality by Anu Rammohan and Peter E. Robertson Are educational policies elitist? by Biagio Speciale Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact? by Donatella [...]

Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments?

by Volker Grossman and David Stadelmann IZA DP No.6610, May 2012 This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where individuals decide on education and subsequent emigration. Migration decisions are based on differences in net income across jurisdictions [...]

Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

by Oded Galor IZA Discussion Paper No. 6328 January 2012 Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for growth, the  neoclassical paradigm dismissed the classical hypothesis and suggested that income distribution [...]

Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital Accumulation Evidence from West Bengal

Klaus Deininger,  Songqing Jin,  and Vandana Yadav Working Paper No. 2011/82 We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for males) [...]

Social returns to education in a developing country

 by Alpay Filiztekin MPRA Paper No.35124, December 2011 This paper estimates social returns to education in Turkey. Most evidence on spillovers from human capital comes mostly from developed countries, and estimates vary from country to country. The paper finds that social returns to education are around 3-4%, whereas private re- turns per year of education [...]

The evolving dynamics of global economic power in the post-crisis world: Revelations from a new Index of Government Economic Power

by Kaushik Basu, Supriyo De, Rangeet Ghosh and Shweta DEA Working Paper No. 4/2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as simple and parsimonious a [...]

The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality andits Effect on Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

by David J. Balan and Stephen Knack WPS 5720, June 2011 This paper incorporates morality—defined as lower utility from consuming goods obtained through appropriative rather than productive activities—into a simple static general equilibrium model in which agents choose whether to be producers or appropriators. The authors analyze the relationship between the correlation between morality and [...]

Human Capital and Career Success:Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

By Anders Frederiksen and Takao Kato IZA DP No. 5764, June 2011 Denmark’s registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous evidence for [...]

Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled

By  Metka Hercog and Melissa Siegel UNU-MERIT WP-2011-015 Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated ‘brain drain’ as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of poverty levels. Therefore, any [...]

Migration and Education

By Christian Dustmann and Albrecht Glitz CReAM Discussion Paper No 05/11 Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many dimensions. Education and skill acquisition play an important role at many stages of an individual’s migration. [...]

Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India?

By  Sripad Motiram and Lars Osberg IGIDR WP-2011-010 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus in-home instructional time) using the Indian Time Use Survey of 1998-1999 [...]

Endogenous Selection of Comparison Groups, Human Capital Formation, and Tax Policy

Oded Stark, Walter Hyll, and Yong Wang ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 148, 2011 This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill [...]

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