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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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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 …
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While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have … (SMEs). We conclude that companies' participation in the VET system facilitates organizational learning in training …
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This paper investigates the properties of knowledge production in academic research using a panel of 17 OECD countries reaching from 1989 to 1996. The production process is modelled using capital and labour as inputs and the number of published international journal articles and/or the number of...
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We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower … mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …
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size and exports over GDP. The authors also separate the impacts of education and R&D on piracy, and find two effects with …
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The paper presents a dynamic general-equilibrium model of education, quality and variety innovation, and scale … separate R&D sectors. In the balanced growth equilibrium education and innovation appear as in-line engines of growth and … government can accelerate growth by subsidizing education or by enhancing the effectiveness of the educational sector. …
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
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