Human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives: South Korea versus Africa

Economic Development through Knowledge Creation - The Case of Korea

Knowledge is now recognized as the key to determining competitiveness in the 21 century, which emphasizes the role of information, technology and learning in economic performance. The objective of this paper is to identify the importance and characteristics of knowledge-based economy and identifies the current position of Korean economy in the process of transformation from a traditional resour...

Capital Accumulation and Macro Policy in South Africa: Political Instability, Distributive Conflict, and Economic Institutions

This paper explores the institutional factors behind the crisis of capital accumulation in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Because of its focus on institutional stability, the paper contributes to the literature on the existence of an apartheid social structure of accumulation in which economic and political institutions are important determinants of investment. Investment function estimat...

Diffusion and directed technological knowledge, human capital and wages

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F43 J31 O31 O33 Keywords: Technological knowledge International trade Human capital Wage inequality By connecting the North–South diffusion and the bias of non-scale technological knowledge and by considering endogenous human capital, we relate the technological-knowledge diffusion with levels, inter-country gaps, growth rates, wage-inequality paths and...

Human Capital, Institutions, and Incentives: Micro and Macro Perspectives

This dissertation consists of four essays on human capital, institutions, and incentives. In the first essay, I investigate the effects of voucher-school competition on educational outcomes in Chile. I present a theoretical model that produces three empirical predictions: voucher-school competition 1) improves student outcomes; 2) may put stronger pressure on public schools to increase quality;...

Incentives, Knowledge Creation and Inter-organisation Cooperative Agreements