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Making your own future: Expectations and occupation choice

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

to increase our knowledge about the timing and the source of information about wages and other forms of rewards. Taking …

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Choosing a career in Science and Technology

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

Student choice is at the center of many discussions about higher education policy. At the same time, and regardless of the emphasis put on achieving an important endowment of graduates trained in science and engineering, participation in these fields is stagnated or declining. Evidence suggests...

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Occupation Choice: Family, Social and Market Influences

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

The advance of knowledge-based societies has modified the labor markets and qualification requirements. In this sense …

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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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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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What is the 'Knowledge Economy'? Knowledge Intensity and Distributed Knowledge Bases

Smith, Keith - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2002

In recent years public policies for science, technology and innovation have attracted increased attention as a result … of claims that knowledge-intensive industries are now at the core of growth, and that we are now entering a completely … new form of 'knowledge society'. The objectives of this paper are firstly to examine what various authors mean by the …

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