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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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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

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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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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper examines the industrial performance indicators and the relationships between skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new growth literature, concerning the correlation...

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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

leads to poor provision of training; low skill levels; skills mismatch; low transfer of knowledge/external schooling effect … of networks systems and collaboration between universities and industry/firms, low transfer of knowledge and a lack of … entrepreneur perspective. We support our third hypothesis that the transfer of knowledge/external schooling effects is successful …

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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands

Akcomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in employment in the Netherlands. We show that changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...

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Location Dynamics and Knowledge Agglomeration

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

agglomeration economies, a knowledge variable is assumed. Returning to a two location economy one is able to assess in graphical … terms the relation between distribution of knowledge and location of economic activities. …

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