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Nations that have managed to become rich have had institutional features that supported incentives for value creation while ensuring that the ways insiders and special interest groups can extract monopoly rents are limited. Improved skills have been a central component of helping individuals and...

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Knowledge for inclusive development : [2nd International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation that was held in Lisbon, August 3-5, 1998]

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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence

Link, Susanne - 2013

Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the … ihrer Tätigkeit als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Abteilung Humankapital und Innovation des ifo Instituts erstellt …

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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Multi-location Firms as a Medium for the Geographic Diffusion of Knowledge

Blit, Joel Nicolas - 2010

This thesis groups three papers examining the role of multi-location firms in the geographic diffusion of knowledge …. The first chapter examines whether a firm's headquarters can tap into the knowledge pool in a remote location through FDI … “satellite effect” on knowledge diffusion is economically significant, representing 47% of the knowledge flow premium associated …

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