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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China

Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017

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 …

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ICT adoption in micro and small firms : can internet access improve labor productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...

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Technological change, entry and stock market dynamics : an analysis of transition in a monopolistic economy

Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw - 2002

This paper explores an equilibrium model for industry entry dynamics and technological change. We focus on the share valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped...

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Identifying leadership skills required in the digital age

Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - 2020

How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...

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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …

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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...

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Gender quotas : challenging the boards, performance, and the stock market

Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2016

, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an …

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Safeguarding quality of higher education in the Netherlands : closing the gap between policy and research

Hartog, Joop - 2016 - This draft: December 23 2015

I will outline the institutional structure of monitoring and improving the quality of higher education in The …

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