The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia places great emphasis on developing the productive skills of its labor force. Part of this effort involves providing jobs for Saudi nationals, the so-called "Saudization" program. The number of Saudis employed in the private sector is very low, and fo…
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The objective of this study is to examine parental motivation (investment versus consumption) for gender differentials in human capital investment using the panel data from the first and second Malaysian Family Surveys fielded in 1976–77 and 1988–89. During this period Malaysia'…
Using the sustainable livelihoods framework as a conceptual lens, this thesis explores the various ways in which rural Afghan women contribute to household livelihoods through agricultural activity in Charikar, Afghanistan. It examines the specific activities in which women part…
This dissertation is an ambitious project that assesses the role of total factor productivity, human capital, knowledge, ideas, and technology in the growth path of Egypt. The first and second chapters present the domestic and open macro variables of the Egyptian economy as nece…
Nigeria emerged from the colonial era in 1960 with great economic promise and potential. The country's economic situation was comparable to many East Asian countries, most notably Indonesia, in terms of population, income per capita, and natural resources. Nigeria discovered vas…
This dissertation is made up of three essays that examine the accumulation of human capital by individuals and the rewards to human capital in the labor market. The first essay evaluates the relationship between language skills and earnings. Unlike previous studies that analyze …
This dissertation aims to quantify the effect of the burden of a disease on economic performance in a cross-section of countries and its main goal is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not …
This research project investigates the nutritional status of children in vulnerable households in Bangladesh and the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The nutritional status of children is an intrinsically important component of human welfare, as well as a proxy for ov…
This study of bureaucracy and organizational leadership behavior examined the strategic importance of power-influence sharing (participation) and organizational culture to human capital resource utilization and organizational effectiveness in work organizations. The analysis is …
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the economic returns to investment in education by applying human capital theory to Turkey. Turkey, one of the least studied of the OECD countries, is an important case considering both its strenuous attempts to modernize and its ne…