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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach
Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835707
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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168467
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The parent and grandparent immigration program in Canada: costs and proposed changes
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the need for the parent and grandparent immigration program in Canada and provides critical observations on its objectives and operations and offers empirical estimates on its costs. And, as a contribution to the Government’s recently launched consultations on how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654200
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An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of the Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants Using the 2006 Census PUMF and Some Observations on Their Implications for Immigration Policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532162
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Immigration and the Growing Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764717
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An analysis of the poor performance of recent immigrants and observations on immigration policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
reaffirms and updates to 2005 our knowledge that the earnings in immigrants varies significantly by country of origin and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132745
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How are the Children of Visible Minority Immigrants Doing in the Canadian Labour Market?
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the performance of the children of immigrants (2nd generation immigrants) to Canada using data from the 2006 Census. As the composition of immigration inflows has shifted after 1980 from the traditional European source countries to the Third World, the analysis focuses on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833277
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Conservative Immigration Policy Reform Has Not Yet Produced Any Significant Improvement in the Aggregate Labour Market Performance of Recent Immigrants
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109516
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An analysis of the Graduate Labour Market in Finland: the impact of Spatial Agglomeration and Skill-Job Mismatches
Consoli, Davide; Vona, Francesco; Saarivirta, Toni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The recent history of Finland has been shaped by the rollercoaster of the 1990s when the economy went from deep recession to becoming among the most innovative and competitive within merely a decade. Economic recovery driven by the surge of ICT-related industries with the active support of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560112
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Employment and sustainable development: education, training and R&D in the regulation of the labour market
Kovács, Ilona; Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
consequently a break with the prevailing model of society and learning and knowledge sharing within modern societies. In the first …, Vocational Training and – desirably – Innovation in that regulation process . We stress that sustainable development imply an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565128