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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions - Working Paper 295
Glassman, Amanda; McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel - 2012
finds variable results for all indicator types with the partial exception of knowledge-based indicators, which increased in …
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The Utilisation of Education and Skills: Incidence and Determinants among Pakistani Graduates
Farooq, Shujaat - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 3, pp. 219-244
This study estimates the incidence of job mismatch and its determinants in Pakistan, based on three categories: (i) qualification mismatch, (i) skill mismatch, and (iii) field-of-study mismatch. It uses both primary and secondary datasets that target graduates employed by the formal sector. The...
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Education, Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality
Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of...
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - University of Western Ontario, CIBC Centre for Human … - 2014
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
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Mismatch Between Education and Occupation: A Case Study of Pakistani Graduates
Farooq, Shujaat - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 531-553
In this study, an attempt has been made to estimate the incidences of job mismatch in Pakistan. The study has divided the job mismatch into three categories; education-job mismatch, qualification mismatch and field of study and job mismatch. Both the primary and secondary datasets have been used...
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The effect of human capital and networks on knowledge and innovation in SMEs
Farace, Salvatore; Mazzotta, Fernanda - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°16 (2015) 1, pp. 39-71
This paper proposes a framework to analyze knowledge creation in traditional sectors and empirically test innovation … ease of learning and promote absorptive capacity and knowledge, which in turn fosters innovation in SMEs in traditional … external network in terms of knowledge and innovation. JEL Codes: D83, O31, J24, L1, C25 …
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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach
Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …
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Innovation, Decentralization, and Planning in a Multi-Region Model of Schumpeterian Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amit; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014
We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …
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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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