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efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education …€”need not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the Asia …
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include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …'s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …
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This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...
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This paper explores an equilibrium model for industry entry dynamics and technological change. We focus on the share valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped...
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How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...
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The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial innovation in emerging … economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from China, it finds that collaboration with domestic …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
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to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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