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The Job Of Human Capital: What Occupational Data Reveal About Skill Sets, Economic Growth And Regional Competitiveness, Lillian Frances Stewart

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A region's workforce has been described as its greatest asset. Guided by human capital theory and new growth theory, regions have pursued economic development policies to increase the number of college-educated workers and expand the pool of STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and math -- talent. Academic literature and policy interventions have focused on a region's human capital in terms of educational attainment instead of a more fine-grained definition of human capital based on skills and competencies. This dissertation integrates economic and business theory and combines three federal databases to explore regional human capital assets. Findings suggest that policymakers may …

Human Capital, Employment And Subjective-Objective Poverty: A Micro Case Study Of Nepal, Tejesh Pradhan

Masters Theses

This thesis derives an alternative subjective-objective poverty line (SPL) using self-reported qualitative assessments of perceived adequacy for different categories of consumption namely, food, housing and clothing. Modeling the probability of reporting that actual consumption in each category is adequate, I find that actual measures of consumption are highly significant predictors of perceived consumption adequacy. The perceived adequacy for different consumption components respond more elastically to spending on the corresponding category of goods than to that on other types. The results suggest that the implied subjective poverty lines and regional profiles are different from those predicted by popular objective methods.

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Chutes And Ladders: Climate Variability And The Decision To Enter Sex Work In India, Kate Pennington

Master's Theses

There is widespread consensus that climate change will drive large-scale changes in poverty distributions, migration, and participation in risky informal labor markets, especially for poor households in developing countries which are both more likely to depend on the environment for their livelihood and less able to insulate against climate shocks. Within poor households, gender inequality means that women and children will bear a disproportional amount of welfare losses. I examine the impact of climate variability on migration and participation in risky informal labor markets for a particularly vulnerable population: female sex workers in India. Using a unique survey of 5,498 …

Essays On Technology Adoption, Demographics, And Development, Ting-Wei Lai

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is to connect empirical findings with grounded theoretical analysis on two economic issues. One of the studies investigates industrial productivity by fitting in a theoretical model with quantitative methods. In addition, I explore how a demographic policy in China brings forth a profound impact in all aspects of the fast-growing economy.

The first chapter, ``Casual Labor, Uncertainty, and Technology Adoption in Agriculture," examines why both the technology adoption rate and labor productivity in agriculture are low in the context of developing countries. A two-stage model is built to explain how the availability of casual (non-permanent) labor ex-post, in …

College-High School Wage And Human Capital Price Differentials, And The Role Of Mobility For Local Wages In The U.S., Eda Bozkurt

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis contains three studies on national and local college wage premia, skill premia, and implications of geographic mobility for local wages. The second chapter investigates the reasons for problems with the standard supply-demand model of skill premium. This chapter shows that the problems of canonical model can be explained by mismeasurement of skills and skill prices. The standard approach assumes changes in wages are driven by changes in skill prices alone, and not by skill levels. We re-estimate the canonical model allowing for changes in skill levels over time. The results show that the demand changes have a much …

Impacto Del Grado De Apertura Económica En Las Productividades Industriales Del Sector Automotriz Para Los Departamentos; Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Santander Y Valle Del Cauca Periodos 2000 A 2010, Luis Esteban Agudelo Salvador

Economía

En este trabajo de grado se analiza los cambios generados en las productividades industriales del sector automotriz debido al aumento en el grado de apertura económica que ha vivido el país desde principios del nuevo milenio. Para realizar este análisis se emplea un modelo de panel de datos utilizando los departamentos donde el sector automotriz tiene gran participación en el PIB industrial durante los periodos 2000 a 2010, Para este caso los departamentos son Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Santander y Valle del cauca. El análisis se realiza bajo los modelos de crecimiento endógeno explicado por Paul Romer, modelo A.K. y nuevos modelos …

Determinantes De La Brecha Salarial Por Género Y Segregación Ocupacional: Áreas Metropolitanas De Colombia 2009 2012, Diego Alejandro Parga Castrillón, Hamilton Herbert Galindo Lúligo

Economía

La demanda laboral y el incremento de la población han sido temas determinantes del acceso laboral en Colombia en la última década, enmarcados en situaciones de discriminación salarial por género y segregación ocupacional, haciendo necesario el estudio de la relación que existe entre ellas. Esta investigación pretende obtener resultados del comportamiento de la brecha salarial y como dentro de sus determinantes se pondera la segregación ocupacional para las 13 áreas metropolitanas del país en los periodos del 2008 al 2012. Se basa en distintas investigaciones propuestas por los diversos teóricos que evaluaron la dimensión salarial por raza y sexo, y …

Fiscal Policy, Laffer Curves And Economic Growth, Si Gao

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The doctoral dissertation consists of three essays on the topics of economic growth and fiscal policy.