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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651824
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653084
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Innovative Strategies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
This publication highlights priorities and strategies in meeting current and emerging needs for skills development in …’ priorities toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclusive growth. It also identifies key issues …, constraints and areas of improvement in making skills training more responsive to emerging labor market needs in South Asia as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942330
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357896
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Robots, occupations, and worker age : a production-unit analysis of employment
Deng, Liuchun; Müller, Steffen; Plümpe, Verena; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We analyse the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use in German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favourable employment effects for the least routine-task intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025782
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Internet Diffusion, Innovation and Employment Growth in the Costa Rican Manufacturing Sector
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study assesses the direct impact of Internet diffusion on total labor demand, the demand for skilled labor, and the demand for female labor. Using data from a sample of manufacturing firms in Costa Rica from 2006 to 2007, the study finds that both process and product innovations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741901
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653224
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Internet Diffusion, Innovation and Employment Growth in the Costa Rican Manufacturing Sector
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study assesses the direct impact of Internet diffusion on total labor demand, the demand for skilled labor, and the demand for female labor. Using data from a sample of manufacturing firms in Costa Rica from 2006 to 2007, the study finds that both process and product innovations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654661