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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 …
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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509227
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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation: A Micro-Level Analysis
Söllner, Rene - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509664
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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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Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking
Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; Yavas, Cemile; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper provides some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administra- tive data on the university entrance exam in Turkey, the paper estimates cumulative learning between the first and the nth...
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Equidad en la distribución de la oferta de educación pública en Argentina
Bezem, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Las escuelas pobres para "pobres" cristalizan la brecha social y profundizan las desigualdades. En otras palabras, las condiciones materiales de las escuelas pueden tener un efecto redistributivo porque impactan positivamente sobre el aprendizaje y contrarrestan la incidencia del nivel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654644
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Assesing Educational Equality and Equity with Large-Scale Assessment Data: Brazil as a Case Study
Willms, J. Douglas; Tramonte, Lucía; Duarte, Jesús; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Researchers have defined and assessed inequalities and inequities in education in various ways, making it difficult to make comparisons among countries or among jurisdictions within countries. This paper sets out practical definitions for equality and equity in education and discusses the...
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Calidad, igualdad y equidad en la educación colombiana (Análisis de la prueba SABER 2009)
Duarte, Jesús; Bos, María Soledad; Moreno, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Esta Nota Técnica describe la desigualdad en los aprendizajes de los alumnos colombianos y analiza la equidad en la distribución de los recursos y procesos que ocurren en la escuela y su relación con los aprendizajes. Usando la base de datos del SABER 2009, el análisis muestra que en...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655819
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Intergenerational Mobility, Middle Sectors and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay
Gandelman, Nestor; Robano, Virginia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper estimates the relationship between parents’ educational attainment and income and children’s schooling in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. This relationship is interpreted as a measure of intergenerational social mobility, and the paper reports evidence that it has decreased over...
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