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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110158
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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257913
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Procuring Innovation
Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791875
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Intangible training capital and productivity in Europe
O’Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper employs industry data, derived from linking the EU LFS to productivity accounts from EU KLEMS, to examine workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible investments by firms and cumulated to stocks so their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259336
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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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A Conceptual Model of National Skills Formation for Knowledge-based Economic Development
Schwalje, Wes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The movement of many countries towards knowledge-based economic development requires the transition to more effective … advancement towards knowledge-based economic development. There is currently no accepted general framework to analyze national … context of knowledge-based economic development and achievement of accompanying economic, political, and social objectives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643193
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528543
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Apprenticeships and Job Tenure: A Competing Risks Model with Time-varying Covariates
Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
The paper examines the extent of apprenticeships in the first job for a cohort of young men entering the labour market at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is estimated. The data set used is the National Child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136614
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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women – the years spanning the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504728
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Persistence in work-related training: evidence from the BHPS, 1991-1998
Sousounis, Panos; Bladen-Hovell, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we investigate the role of workers’ training history in determining current training incidence. The analysis is conducted on an unbalanced sample comprising information on approximately 5000 employees from the first seven waves of the BHPS. Our methodology utilizes a two-step...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619449