Saturday, 8 October 2016

Reading notes on the improvement of productivity in developing countries

·        Title: 
Performance measurement: Does education impact productivity?
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The impact of education on productivity in the agriculture sector
Postsecondary education is positively related to the productivity

Source: Maddison, A. 1987. Growth and slowdown in advanced capitalism economies: Techniques of quan· titative assessment. Journal of Economic Literature vol. 25 (2): Table A-12.
Vary between different countries and over time

·        Title: 
Higher EducationProductivity, and Earnings: A Review
·        Author: Pencavel, John
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Question the measure of the impact of education on earnings and productivity
The association between age and earnings for any schooling level rises because individuals augment the knowledge and training acquired from school by accumulating skills on the job; thus, the age-earnings association is better understood as an association between earnings and labor market experience. There is, indeed, an independent role of age (independent of work experience) because as an individual ages, his physiological and psychological characteristics evolve, and these may exert an effect on earnings. However, in many surveys, information on both an individual's labor market experience and his age are not collected so that their separate effects cannot be distinguished.

·        Title: 
Performance measurement: Does education impact productivity?
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Research on developing countries, agriculture
Critics: Cobb-Douglass assumption of constant rate of returns

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·        Title: 
Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
·        Author: Rycx, François ; Saks, Yves ; Tojerow, Ilan

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