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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 …

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Entrepreneurship Dynamics: Entry Routes, Business-Owner's Persistence and Exit Modes

Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset. We identify the transition of over 200,000 nascent business-owners and follow their survival patterns in the respective businesses using discrete time competing...

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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality

Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001

This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...

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Human capital and corruption: a microeconomic model of the bribes market with democratic contestability

Vieira, Pedro Cosme Costa; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006

To overcome market failures society creates common laws that stimulate or penalize individual actions, the enforcement of which depends on the actions of public authorities who may be susceptible to corruption. Thus, a new market emerges where ‘influences’ are traded. Legislators have...

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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data

Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998

Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...

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Estimating the human capital stock for Cape Verde, 1950-2012

Moreira, Silves J.C.; Vieira, Pedro Cosme; Teixeira, … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

Despite the importance of human capital stock to the economic growth of countries, its analysis has been restricted to more developed countries or to cross-country samples from a set of countries. Due to a lack of estimates for this variable in less developed countries, it has not been possible...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Organizational Characteristics and Performance of Export Promotion Agencies: Portugal and Ireland compared

Ferreira, Maria Inês Veloso; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

to improve the competitiveness of firms by increasing knowledge and competences applied to export market development … knowledge, no studies have yet been conducted that analyze, detail and explain which of the EPAs’ organizational characteristics … Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal (AICEP) emerges as an organization without any clear component of intentionality, being …

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Does Inertia Pay Off? Empirical assessment of an evolutionary-ecological model of human capital decisions at firm level

Teixeira, Aurora - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2003

This paper empirically assesses the validity of a model which combines organisational ecology and evolutionary theory to analyse human capital accumulation decisions at firm level. The main argument of the model is that factors underlying the process of plants’ reproduction, especially the...

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