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The impact of class absenteeism on undergraduates’ academic performance: evidence from an elite Economics school in Portugal
Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842595
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Human capital, trade and long-run productivity. Testing the technological absorption hypothesis for the Portuguese economy, 1960-2001
Teixeira, Aurora A.C.; Fortuna, Natércia - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
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
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Human Capital, Innovation Capability and Economic Growth
Teixeira, Aurora; Fortuna, Natércia - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2003
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
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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003
Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076552
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The level of human capital in innovative firms located in China. Is foreign capital relevant?
Shu, Li; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
between FDI, Human Capital and Innovation at a corporate level. Based on a set of large and innovative firms (national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725676
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Human Capital Intensity in Technology-Based Firms Located in Portugal: Do Foreign Multinationals Make a Difference?
Tavares, Ana Teresa; Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2005
. New evidence is provided, based on a comprehensive, large-scale survey of technology-based firms located in Portugal … development for an economy like Portugal (lagging behind in terms of human capital stock, and seeming to have lost part of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970057
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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002
Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125714
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A Test of the Signalling Hypothesis - Evidence from Natural Experiment
Stolorz, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005
The paper proposes an alternative methodology for testing signalling hypothesis based on chances to get a job in a particular class of the job market. The individuals are ranked and matched by an external mechanism, based on preferences of employers in respect to actual observable and perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125815
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Do family choices slow down economic growth?
Taylor, Leon - EconWPA - 2000
Econometric simulations provide no evidence that families in West Virginia encouraged sons to drop out of high school in order to earn income as coal miners, at the net expense of later income that they would have earned with more education. Estimates of the typical family's subjective rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125817
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Local sustainable mobility management. Are Portuguese municipalities aware?
Monteiro, Catarina Aroso; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
yet to be dealt with appropriately and in a credible way. This shortcoming is particularly acute in Portugal where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059490