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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 …

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Determinants of Economic Growth and the Role of Human Capital in New Growth Models [in Turkish]

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005

This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...

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Smart Cities: Explaining the Relationship between City Growth and Human Capital

Shapiro, Jesse M. - EconWPA - 2003

contrasts with the standard argument that human capital generates growth in urban areas solely through local knowledge …

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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - EconWPA - 2005

California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …

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