Showing 1 - 10 of 519
Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139790
Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842595
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228821
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370238
technological innovation, and to adopt and to implement efficiently technology from abroad. However, the role of human capital as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059453
In this paper, we study human capital effects on economic growth of Portugal from 1960 to 2001. By using VAR and … cointegration analyses, we obtain 0.42 long-run estimate for human capital elasticity, 0.30 long-run estimate for internal knowledge … between human capital and innovation capability. These estimates seem to confirm that human capital and indigenous innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059562
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098384
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985641
In this paper we intend to empirically examine how different political institutions may define the long-term economic development, determined by educational investments and income inequality. With this objective, we assess the impact of political rivalry on four selected macroeconomic variables:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895375
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001728255