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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality

Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001

This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...

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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data

Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998

Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

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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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

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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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

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Famous business fusions : ideas that revolutionized industries

Meadows, C. J. - 2022

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Envisioning the future of learning for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship

Papageorgiou, Kyriaki; Kokshagina, Olga - 2022

Envisioning the Future of Learning for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship outlines the work and findings of … changing landscape of education for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship (CIE). Built on insights from more than 250 … images are included in the book using the technique of visual thinking, stimulating imagination, creativity and innovation. …

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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of … strengthening its role in knowledge spillovers to client industries. …

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