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This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
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This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479051
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/10010629836
-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
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
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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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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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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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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R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … gains from collaboration can be high initially, cost may start to outweigh those benefits if firms engage in multiple … collaborative projects simultaneously. This study explicitly considers a firm's collaboration intensity, that is, the share of …
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