/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast …

?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …

workers participating substantially less. Second, we measure the wage effects of training. We find that in Portugal returns to …

Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …

establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …