Education, Training and Economic Performance: Evidence from Establishment Survival Data

Offshoring, Firm Performance and Employment – Evidence from German Establishment Data

This paper seeks to isolate empirically the productivity effect of offshoring on establishment employment (e.g. Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg, 2008) from a direct employment effect via downsizing. The analysis is pursued for a representative sample of German establishments from 1998 to 2004, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. First, we find a positive employment effect from a qu...

Internet Education and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions

The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries. Regression results show that the frequent usage of the Internet has a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The estimated growth effect of Internet skills is also found to be great...

Adult education, training and individual performance: Some preliminary evidence from PIAAC

Despite a growing emphasis on the importance of lifelong learning and continuous skills updating the existing analyses typically measure the return to adult education and training as gains in wage and overlook individual performance. The proposed paper investigates how adult education and training impact individual proficiency in cognitive skills based on the Survey of Adult Skills promoted by ...

Impact of Financial Development on CO2 Emissions: Panel Data Evidence from Iran’s Economic Sectors

Introduction: The national trend indicates that various provinces of Iran have experienced in attaining economic growth exclusive of parallel observing a boost in CO2 emissions. It is clear that the effects of CO2 emissions on health indicators such as death rate, infant mortality, and health expenditures have been ignored by policy makers over the last decade.   Methods: This study for ...

Higher Education, Real Income And Real Investment In The Selected OIC Members: Evidence From ARDL And Panel Data Approaches