The August 15th 2013 Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) should leave policy makers wondering about whether the impressive growth experienced by ‘latecomers in the industry' has moved hand-in-hand with contribution to knowledge by means of scientific publications. Against...

This paper shows that technological progress caused by a domestic high-tech firm always increases the skilled-unskilled wage inequality, using a two-sector, two-labor model. Also, we derive a sufficient condition for the technological progress to be effective in increasing domestic welfare. In...

The relationship between exports and the propensity to innovate is an important issue for a developing economy. This article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it distinguishes the propensity to innovate among three...

This paper shows that technological progress caused by a domestic high-tech firm always increases the skilled-unskilled wage inequality, using a two-sector, two-labor model. Also, we derive a sufficient condition for the technological progress to be effective in increasing domestic welfare. In...

We analyze the comovements of a set of country-sector indexes from 45 different countries studying their factor decomposition based on a PCA analysis for a large cross section framework. We derive a measure to analyze the comovements over time based on the part of variance explained by the main...

The present study examined the relationship between kenyan cultural officers occupational engagement and demographic traits.....

The purpose of this study was to investigate commercial high school students? conceptual structures of accounting. Data was collected from 132 students using a free word association test in Turkey...

Indian textile enjoys a rich heritage and the origin of textiles in India traces back to the Indus valley Civilization where people used homespun cotton for weaving their clothes. If we talk about the Indian Textiles Industry....

The purpose of this study is to analyze to efficiency and performance of Islamic Bank as compare to two types of conventional banks i.e public and private sector banks......

Nonverbal Communication plays an important role in communicating varied meanings as cues to the receiver. It is the basic and primitive form of conveying information from......