...Sriparna Goswami; Bidisha Chakraborty Purpose This paper aims to understand the differing impacts of wealth distribution on human capital accumulation and skilled-unskilled labour generation under three educational paradigms as follows: private, public and a system of mixed education. Design...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Growth and development strategies Regional development Infrastructure Infrastructure investment Information and communications technology (ICT) Human capital Made in China 2025 Supply-side reform...

... n workers to maximize his profit: (1) π t T ( k ) = max n { k n α − w t T n } , © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Growth and development strategies Human capital Evidence...

... to be addressed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Human capital Regional variation Child schooling Community or village level effects Gender bias Household fixed effects J16, J24, O15, I20, D13 The Indian economy has grown at a rapid pace over the past two decades. However...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Income and wealth distribution Trade policy Human capital Poverty WTO Trade Wealth and income Child labour continues to be a problem in many parts of the world affecting an estimated 218 million children in 2004. Although the incidence of child labour has been...

... on geographic contiguity, caste group membership and occupation. India Rural regions Agriculture Farms Human capital Education externalities Learning spillovers Rural India Farm productivity Growth and development strategies The existing literature mainly focuses on education externalities...

... some understanding of the relationship between human capital, migration, and occupational choices. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts with an overlapping generations model. Human capital plays various roles across different occupations – it does not affect the income of farmers...

... An overlapping generations model is developed where agents are imperfectly altruistic and face uncertain lifetimes. The rate of time preference of an agent depends on her probability of survival which is increasing in her level of consumption. An agent's initial endowment of human capital jointly determines her...