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Education, vocational training and R&D: towards new forms of labor market regulation
Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
efficiency as globalization was setting up. In this paper we shed light on the increasing role which innovation is called to … throughout which R&D become embedded in nowadays societies, evidence clearly reveals how innovation strategies are to be found so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220098
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Resisting Education
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114515
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R&D, innovation and job creation: key-ideas of a relation
Moniz, António; Casaca, Sara; Bairrada, Mário; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
scientific and technological knowledge from manufacturing, to the marketing and the strategic management of companies that act as … protagonists of these processes. Globalization of markets is inter-connected with intensive incorporation of knowledge in economy …. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619723
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Basic income sustainability and productivity growth in cognitive capitalism: a first theoretical framework
Fumagalli, Andrea; Lucarelli, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
paradigm crisis, highlighting the strong links between the exploitation of knowledge and the accumulation of surplus. Therefore …, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784955
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School Performance Evaluation under the Voucher System: the Case of Chile
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that education is one of the best ways to offer increased socioeconomic opportunities, social mobility and wages. Not only is universal education important but more significant is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212961
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Socio-religious Disparity in Educational Achievements: A District Level study in West Bengal
Hati, Koushik Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Education is a powerful catalyst for the change of a society and plays a crucial role in the development of a nation. In recent years, education has been included as a key component of Human Development Index. As a result, social and regional disparities in educational achievement drag back...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258881
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Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey Over Time
Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we use test scores of PISA in mathematics, science and reading achievement of 15-year-olds over the period 2003-2012. Since the different waves of the samples cover only a fraction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266235
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Child Labour and Education in Jordan: A Rapid Assessment
Abu-Rumman, Raed; Shahateet, Mohammed; Shahin, Azmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
attitude and knowledge levels of educators and parents on child labour-related issues; and 4) to recommend policies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107299
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Human capital and trends in the transmission of economic status across generations in the U.S.
Richey, Jeremiah; Rosburg, Alicia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a decomposition method based on the OLS omitted variable bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108217
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Educational Development Index Based on DISE data for Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109141