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Conditions and consequences of education: Microeconometric analyses
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara - 2019
This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …
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A Blockchain Application in Energy
Hukkinen, Taneli; Mattila, Juri; Ilomäki, Juuso; … - 2017
This report documents a blockchain application developed for the energy sector that enables distributed market coordination for decentralized energy systems. As its core element, it utilizes Ethereum-based smart contracts to facilitate market matching between individual producers and consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037691
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Distributed Workflow Management with Smart Contracts
Hukkinen, Taneli; Mattila, Juri; Seppälä, Timo - 2017
This report documents a blockchain application developed for the real estate sector. The application enables distributed workflow management in a complicated transaction process: the selling of a share of stocks in a housing corporation. As its core element, the application utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037698
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Vocational education and productivity in the Swiss business sector: An analysis based on firm-level and industry-level panel data
Arvanitis, Spyros; Bolli, Thomas; Wörter, Martin - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280858
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Offshoring R&D
Tuhkuri, Joonas; Lööf, Hans; Mohammadi, Ali; … - 2016
This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037672
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How well does education travel? Education and occupation with and without migration
Gächter, August; Smoliner, Stefanie - 2010
occupational levels for any given level of education in the two countries of interest: Austria and Germany. Migrant outcomes are … also being compared with home country outcomes, i.e. Serbia and Turkey. We find that education is imperfectly portable … occupational returns to education but migrants in Austria or Germany lag considerably behind. Middle and higher education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345630
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Human capital: challenges for Russia
Mau, Vladimir - 2013
qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379766
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Gender gap in the CIS region
Rokicka, Magdalena - 2008
has shrunken after and during the transition period. On the other hand in such fields as secondary and tertiary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430805
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Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighbourhood
Slay, Ben - 2009
This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430840
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The Framework Catalogue of Digital Competences
Jasiewicz, Justyna; Filiciak, Mirosław; Mierzecka, Anna; … - 2015
Operational Programme Digital Poland - "Priority axis III: Digital competences of the society" focuses on raising digital activity in order to allow fully use possibilities of high-speed Internet and new public e-services. It comprises four actions including Training activities for development...
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