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The role of geographical proximity for project performance: Evidence from the German "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition"
Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2015
The role of geographical proximity in fostering connections and knowledge flows between innovative actors ranks among the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While there is ample empirical evidence on the constituent...
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Can population promote income per-capita growth? A balanced perspective
Tournemaine, Frederic - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2007) 8, pp. 1-7
We develop a model in which technical progress, human capital and population interact endogenously to examine the impact of population growth on economic development. We find that population growth can be positively or negatively correlated with the growth rate of income per-capita. The outcome...
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Education, growth and technology diffusion
Heinrich, Tobias - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 866-870
-country datasets. The empirical results give evidence that all types of education are important for TFP growth and that there is an … interaction between education and the distance to the technology frontier. However, the analysis of sub samples of the data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278861
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Can population promote income per-capita growth? A balanced perspective
Tournemaine, Frederic - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2007) 8, pp. 1-7
We develop a model in which technical progress, human capital and population interact endogenously to examine the impact of population growth on economic development. We find that population growth can be positively or negatively correlated with the growth rate of income per-capita. The outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196423
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Gender Based Differences in Managerial Experience: The Case of Informal Firms in Rwanda
Kushnir, Khrystyna; Amin, Mohammad - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 3032-3049
The paper contributes to the literature on gender-based disparity in human capital by extending existing results on educational attainment to the number of years of experience that female vs. male managers have among informal or unregistered firms. Using the case of Rwanda, results show that the...
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An Empirical Illustration of Positive Stigma towards Child Labor
Patrinos, Harry A; Shafiq, Najeeb - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 799-807
This empirical note complements the qualitative and theoretical research on positive household stigma towards child labor. We use data from Guatemala and two instruments for measuring stigma: a child's indigenous background and household head's childhood work experience. We then adopt binomial...
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Impact of education on the shadow economy: Institutions matter
Buehn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2052-2063
Using panel data for more than 80 countries from 1999-2007 this paper studies the marginal effect of education on the … shadow economy, particularly considering the quality of institutions. The results show that higher levels of education fuel …
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The Impact of Educational Attainment and Gender on the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
Mazumder, Sandeep - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 651-662
for the level of education allows for superior estimation of group-specific Phillips curves. In this paper we consider … economies. We find that the education-adjusted unemployment gap does little to help estimate the inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266686
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980453