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Moving skills from hands to heads: Import of technology and export performance

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Galeotti, Marzio; Mattozzi, Andrea - 2000

This paper examines the link between imported technologies and a country's export performance, as measured by product quality. The analysis is set in the background of the process of regional integration between the EU and its neighbouring developing countries. The underlying question is whether...

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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...

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Education and earnings growth: Evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience … profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labour … in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which …

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On the complementary between education and training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between individual educational attainment and … employment protection and a lower value of the Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and …

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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …

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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience … profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labor … in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262356

On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training … Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and limited labor market experience enjoy higher …

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence …

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Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe: economic factors and labour market institutions

Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects … of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent decades: the baby bust and the education boom. We find that structural …

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