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Overcoming Skills Shortages in Canada
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276903
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Improving Education Outcomes in the Slovak Republic
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045693
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Improving Education Outcomes in Germany
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly...
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Improving Education Achievement and Attainment in Luxembourg
Carey, David; Ernst, Ekkehard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing residents. employment prospects in the private sector, where employers mainly hire cross-border workers. Student achievement in Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046051
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480697
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481616
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Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis
Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462793
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre - 2006
This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466388
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
opportunity and in encouraging trade in new technological knowledge. Through setting low fees and establishing administrative … cost of transacting in them. Creating secure assets in new technological knowledge and facilitating access to markets in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467721
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The Importance of R&D for Innovation : A Reassessment Using French Survey Data
Mairesse, Jacques - 2004
This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided … by the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3) for French manufacturing firms and in terms of accounting for inter …-industry innovation differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467790