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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
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This study looked at the relevance of agriculture in the Nigeria society and the need for employment and application of information and communication technology into agricultural sector as a solution to unemployment problems in Nigeria. As information and communication technology is a booming...
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characterized by the fact that the accumulation increasingly wear on knowledge. First, we will explain and argue our position with … autonomous actor and principal of all current changes of capitalism. Moreover, rather than revolution, the knowledge economy …" promised to developing countries. A key point is reported on the issue of knowledge production. Often discussed bias, this …
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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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country, developments in information and knowledge-based society. We consider relevant for our research the approach and the … diagnosis of our country's position in the global competition of the knowledge-based economy, through representative models of … supporting the development of our country towards the knowledge society and its integration into EU research, the research aims …
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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076554
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology. Using comparable and exhaustive micro-level data sets, we find that industries tend to be subject...
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, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro-level data sets. We find some similarities between Portugal and Belgium …
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Principles for Portugal highlights the market analysis of the insurance market. Investment in domestic government bonds has … reserve that incorporates the changes in the market value of investments. Instituto de Seguros de Portugal (ISP) appreciated …
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