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How Important Is Human Capital for Development? Evidence from Immigrant Earnings
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This paper found that for countries below 40% of the US output per worker, less than half of the output gap relative to the US is attributed to human and physical capital in the US.Abstract:
This paper offers new evidence on the sources of cross-country income differences. It exploits the idea that observing immigrant workers from different countries in the same labor market provides an opportunity to estimate their human-capital endowments. These estimates suggest that human and physical capital account for only a fraction of cross-country income differences. For countries below 40% of the US output per worker, less than half of the output gap relative to the US is attributed to human and physical capital.read more
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
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Chapter 9 Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
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Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
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Externalities and Growth
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Human capital theory: implications for human resource development
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
TL;DR: The authors examined whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living, and they showed that an augmented Solow model that includes accumulation of human as well as physical capital provides an excellent description of the cross-country data.
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Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others
Robert E. Hall,Charles I. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the differences in capital accumulation, productivity, and therefore output per worker are driven by differences in institutions and government policies, which are referred to as social infrastructure and called social infrastructure as endogenous, determined historically by location and other factors captured by language.
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Returns to investment in education: A global update
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A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
Klaus Deininger,Lyn Squire +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income is presented, and the authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares.
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Does Schooling Cause Growth
Mark Bils,Peter J. Klenow +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a model is examined in which the ability to build on the human capital of one's elders plays an important role in linking growth to schooling, and it is shown that the impact of schooling on growth explains less than one third of the empirical cross-country relationship.
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