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Human Capital and Economic Growth
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In this article, the authors show that growth of human capital is both a condition and a consequence of economic growth, and that human capital activities involve not only the transmission and embodiment in people of available knowledge, but also the production of new knowledge.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 1984-01-01. It has received 281 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Physical capital & Human capital.read more
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Corruption and the composition of government expenditure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether predatory behavior by corrupt politicians distorts the composition of government expenditure and found that such behavior reduces government spending on education in a cross-section of countries.
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Investment in Education and U.S. Economic Growth
TL;DR: This article measured the impact of investment in education on U.S. economic growth and found that education is treated as an investment in human capital, since benefits accrue to an educated individual over a lifetime of activities.
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Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that political battles over trade policy appear to have sometimes divided societies along broad class lines and at other times split them into narrow industry-based coalitions and that this diversity stems from historical and cross-national variation in inter-industry factor mobility.
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Wage structures and labor turnover in the United States and Japan
Jacob Mincer,Yoshio Higuchi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between the steepness of worker profiles and turnover in the United States and Japan and found that the latter is the main reason for the steeper tenure-wage slopes and lower turnover.
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Do Institutions Play a Role in Skilled Migration? The Case of Italy
Annamaria Nifo,Gaetano Vecchione +1 more
TL;DR: Nifo et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the impact of provincial institution quality on the probability of resident graduates migrating and found that institutions do matter for migration decisions and their importance is comparable with that of per capita income provincial differences.
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Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the effects of income distribution on consumption depend upon its causes and that factors associated with observed inequality must be taken into account before the data can be put to any use.
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The economics of education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive survey of the economics of education from an international perspective, which includes new chapters on educational costs and benefits, teacher's salaries and educational finance.