productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …

human capital reveals a linear two-way interaction between the education of managers and management practices. We find …

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 …

development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …

include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …'s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …

new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes … collaboration of companies, educational institutions, governments and multilateral policy agencies. This paper presents an analysis …

offering skills training and in hiring workers with more formal education. Drawing on a dataset of enterprises in five Asian … countries, we find major size-based differences in education and training. While smaller firms train less, they also are less …