Download or read book Focusing on the Effect of Educational Attainment and Technology Adoption on Economic Growth written by Wan-Goo Kang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoclassical growth theory suggests that less-developed countries will grow faster than developed countries because less-developed countries adopt technologies from the developed countries at low cost. This means that technology-adopting countries tend to grow faster when the technology gap from the technology transfer country is greater. However, experience over the last 40 years shows often that differences in growth rates across countries are persistent and some countries, especially relatively low income countries, have not grown fast in spite of a large technology gap. Therefore, this paper tries to identify environments where the technology gap affects economic growth through the diffusion of technologies obtained from leading economies by less developed ones. We assume that the benefit from the technology gap is limited by the human capital of the country and depends on interactions between that country and advanced countries. We focus on the role of average educational level in the process of technological progress through technology adoption from abroad. In addition, we test the effects of different levels of human capital. Using OLS, 3SLS, and panel analyses, this paper tests the role of human capital attainment and the effect of technology adoption combined with human capital in the growth process. This paper finds that human capital attainment and technology adoption have positive effects on economic growth. In addition, higher levels of education are more important in the later stages of development or in the developed countries. Technology adoption effects combined with human capital are increased as the human capital level increases.
Download or read book Education Technology Adoption and Economic Growth written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education Skills and Technical Change written by Charles R. Hulten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep pace with the evolving demands placed on it, and how can the workforce of tomorrow acquire the skills and competencies that are most in demand? Education, Skills, and Technical Change explores various facets of these questions and provides an overview of educational attainment in the United States and the channels through which labor force skills and education affect GDP growth. Contributors to this volume focus on a range of educational and training institutions and bring new data to bear on how we understand the role of college and vocational education and the size and nature of the skills gap. This work links a range of research areas—such as growth accounting, skill development, higher education, and immigration—and also examines how well students are being prepared for the current and future world of work.
Download or read book Closing the Gap in Education and Technology written by David M. De Ferranti and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental elements to unlocking the potential of technology to speed up economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are investing in education, opening up new technologies through foreign trade and investment, and encouraging private sector research and development. 'Closing the Gap in Education and Technology' advises Latin American and Caribbean governments to address the region's deficits in skills and technology, and thereby boost productivity, ultimately improving growth prospects. To close this 'productivity gap' in the region, the report calls for a range of policy approaches and strategies, depending on a country's level of development. It identifies three progressive stages in a country's technological evolution -- adoption, adaptation, and creation -- and observes that policies should be designed to address the particular challenges that accompany each stage.In conclusion, 'Closing the Gap in Education and Technology' argues that many countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have been improving education and social risk management systems so that they are now ready to benefit from the rewards associated with creating stronger trade and technology ties with countries that are more technologically advanced.
Download or read book Human Capital Policy written by David Neumark and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book evaluates international human capital policies, offering a comparative perspective on global efforts to generate new ideas and novel ways of thinking about human capital. Examining educational reforms, quality of education and links between education and socio-economic environments, chapters contrast Western experiences and perspectives with those of industrializing economies in Asia, focusing particularly on Korea and the USA.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Expansion Evidence and Interpretation written by Mark Gradstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policy Technology Adoption and Growth written by William Easterly and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper describes a simple model of technology adoption which combines the two engines of growth emphasized in the recent growth literature: human capital accumulation and technological progress. Our model economy does not create new technologies, it simply adopts those that have been created elsewhere. The accumulation of human capital is closely tied to this adoption process: accumulating human capital simply means learning how to incorporate a new intermediate good into the production process. Since the adoption costs are proportional to the labor force, the model does not display the counterfactual scale effects that are standard in models with endogenous technical progress. We show that our model is compatible with various standard results on the effects of economic policy on the rate of growth.
Download or read book Economic Growth in a Developing Country the Role of Technology Adoption and Industrialization written by Been-Lon Chen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology Adoption and Schooling written by Diego Restuccia and published by London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. This book was released on 1998 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth written by Richard Michael Cyert and published by Ballinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Job desplacement; The employment and labor market adjustment: evidence from the displaced worker surveys; Technological change and the extent of frictional and structural unemployment; The effects of technological change on skills and the distribution of earnings and income; Sectoral patterns of technology adoption; Trade, tax, and diffusion policy issues.
Download or read book E Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption National ICT Approaches for Socioeconomic Development written by Kamel, Sherif and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption: National ICT Approaches for Socioeconomic Development provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies related to the adoption, diffusion, and adaptation of national electronic strategies for ICTs in socioeconomic development.
Download or read book Technology Adoption and Economic Growth written by Nadja Würth and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Ict in the Developing Countries on the Economic Growth written by Stefan Detschew and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,5, Technical University of Ilmenau (Institut f r Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 43 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for economic growth in developing economies. By reviewing the contributions from the neoclassical and endogenous growth theory and empiric evidences for the link between ICT and economic growth, the paper clearly concludes that ICTs facilitate economic growth, principally by providing incentives for capital deepening and increasing productivity through rapid technological progress. However, the impact on growth is more extensive from the long-term ICT use and networking that though requires appropriate ICT investment and complementary efforts in order that spillovers and productivity improvements are triggered and exploited totally. This paper derives the key determinants and interacting factors that, in the corresponding correct synergic combination, promote ICT's impact on growth-generating processes. For a variety of reasons, the states of these factors in developing countries provide a less ICT favourable environment for taking advantage from ICTs. These economies exhibit a lower stock of human capacities and per capita capital to trigger the productivity benefits from the ICT use. Therefore, the level of effort is higher than in the developed world to receive return on ICT investment. However, when they achieve to attract capital and knowledge by encouraging ICT investment and technology transfer supported by international openness, maintained financial and institutional systems, deregulation of markets and higher competition, they have the chance to benefit from adopting best practices and technologies from the industrialized world with complementary efforts in the reorganisation of business organisations and processes and enhanced human ICT-s
Download or read book Education Productivity and Inequality written by John B. Knight and published by World Bank. This book was released on 1990 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between resources devoted to education and the economy of developing nations is explored. The research seeks to understand if and how investment in education translates into increased economic growth and labor productivity. Additionally, the function of education in reducing various dimensions of economic inequality is examined. The two East African nations that are the study's focus, Kenya and Tanzania, have similar levels of income, but they differ markedly in their public policy toward the provision of secondary education and thus in the educational attainment of the labor force. The research findings provide strong backing for the human capital paradigm: educational expansion is shown to raise labor productivity. The results also show that making education less scarce diminishes inequality in access to education and in income. Numerous figures and tables of data appear throughout this volume; a list of 170 references is included. (DB)
Download or read book The Impact of Efficiency Improvement and Technical Change on the Growth of Indonesia s Economy written by Muhammad Nasir and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory and Experience of Economic Development written by Mark Gersovitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis, 1979 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The authors, an international group of distinguished scholars, address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis’ research interests, covering topics which include: technological change in agriculture, analyses of unemployment and income distribution, the role of government policy in the development process, the historical record of development, and the relationship between developed and developing nations. The book will be of interest to both the academic researcher and practicing professionals in the international organisations and national governments, and are particularly appropriate to graduate courses in economic development, cost-benefit analysis and economic history.
