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Improving skills and their use in Germany
Fuentes, Andrés; Lehmann, Stephanie; Kim, Eun Jung - 2018
Cognitive skills, such as reading and numeric skills, are key determinants of wages, employment and long-term economic growth. Good cognitive skills also reduce poverty risk and improve non-material wellbeing, such as health and social cohesion. Non-cognitive skills, such as skills to use...
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Exploring the causal relation between obesity and alcohol use, and educational outcomes
Vuik, Sabine; Devaux, Marion; Cecchini, Michele - 2019
Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk factors are known to affect health and wellbeing, but may also have an impact on educational outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess a potential causal relationship...
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Knowledge and innovation in business and industry : the importance of using others
Håkansson, Håkan (contributor) - 2007
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Networks of innovation : towards new models for managing schools and systems
2003
: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …
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The impact of highly-skilled ICT labour on firm performance : empirical evidence from six European countries
Hagsten, Eva; Sabadash, Anna - 2014
While unemployment in the EU is above 10%, the job vacancy rate also remains high around 1.5%. This suggests considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special role that schooled ICT experts in firms - an intangible...
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Are ICT displacing workers? : evidence from seven European countries
Pantea, Smaranda; Biagi, Federico; Sabadash, Anna - 2014
This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...
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Boosting productivity and preparing for the future of work in Germany
Yashiro, Naomitsu; Lehmann, Stephanie - 2018
throughout the economy. Vigorous entrepreneurship and innovation by small and medium enterprises are key for such technology …
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The German labour market : preparing for the future
Hüfner, Felix; Klein, Caroline - 2012
The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...
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Knowledge creation architecture : constructing the places for knowledge assets and competitive advantage
Nonaka, Ikujirō; Reinmoeller, Patrick - In: Internationales Management : Auswirkungen globaler …, (pp. 21-46). 1999
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