Trans-frontier capital links between socialist enterprises

Relationship between Human Capital and Economic Growth Emphasizing Socialist and Oil-producing Countries

This paper aims to analyze the effect of human capital on economic growth. Linear regression models with ordinary least squares method have been used for the analysis in which the dependent variable of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth is decided according to real price and independent variables for human capital are enrollment rate in different education levels and also literacy r...

The eco-frontier paradigm: rethinking the links between space, nature and politics

There is a gap in the geographical/geopolitical literature about the process that motivates humans to conquer a boundless, timeless and invaluable wilderness in the name of plural ecologies to serve their own political interests in control and territory building by means of ‘green gerrymandering’. The ecological frontier (or eco-frontier), a neologism produced by a contemporary greened civil so...

Human Capital and Convergence: A Production-Frontier Approach

We decompose labor-productivity growth into components attributable to (1) technological change (shifts in the world production frontier), (2) technological catch-up (movements toward or away from the frontier), (3) human capital accumulation (changes in the efficiency of labor), and (4) physical capital accumulation (movement along the frontier). The world production frontier is constructed us...

Trans-septal catheterization: a new frontier in clinical electrophysiology?

Human Capital Composition, Proximity to Technology Frontier and Productivity Growth

The role of human capital composition has been given importance in the most recent endogenous growth models. Assuming that primary as well as secondary education is more suitable for imitation and higher education is more appropriate for innovation, this paper empirically investigates whether the contribution of human capital to productivity growth depends on the composition of human capital an...