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Competencies, Innovation And Profitability Of Firms

Leiponen, Ada - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 9 (2000) 1, pp. 1-24

This empirical study investigates the impact of competencies on firms' economic perfomance. A panel dataset of Finnish … particular, educational competencies are more important for innovators. Finally, the determinants of profitability. of product … innovators differ from those of process innovators, i.e., different competencies complement different types of innovation. …

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Can Mobile Phones Improve Learning? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Niger

Aker, Jenny C.; Ksoll, Christopher; Lybbert, Travis J. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 4, pp. 94-120

The returns to educational investments hinge on whether such investments can improve the quality and persistence of educational gains. We report the results from a randomized evaluation of an adult education program in Niger, in which some students learned how to use simple mobile phones...

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Supply of Human Capital in Times of Skill Biased Technological Change

Zwick, Thomas - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 221 (2001) 3, pp. 322-335

This paper analyses the skill supply consequences of skill biased technological change. In a simple microeconomic model it is shown that higher skill wage mark-ups as well as higher relative unskilled unemployment - frequently attributed to skill biased technological change - induce...

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What drives the skill premium: Technological change or demographic variation?

He, Hui - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 8, pp. 1546-1572

This paper quantitatively examines the effects of two exogenous driving forces, investment-specific technological change (ISTC) and the demographic change known as “the baby boom and the baby bust,” on the evolution of the skill premium and the college enrollment rate in the postwar U.S....

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Occupational choice: Teacher quality versus teacher quantity

Hatsor, Limor - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 4, pp. 608-623

This article examines the relationship between skill-biased technological changes and the decline in both teacher quality and pupil–teacher ratio—called the “quality–quantity trade-off”—in the United States and other advanced economies during the past several decades. The study...

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Language Environment and Maternal Expectations : An Evaluation of the LENA Start Program

Cunha, Flávio; Gerdes, Marsha; Hu, Qinyou; Nihtianova, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports the results of an experimental evaluation of the...

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The Political Economy of a "Miracle Cure" : The Case of Nebulized Ibuprofen and its Diffusion in Argentina

Calónico, Sebastian; Di Tella, Rafael; Lopez del … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document the diffusion of nebulized ibuprofen in Argentina as a treatment for COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, this clinically unsupported drug reached thousands of patients, even some seriously ill, despite warnings by the regulator and medical societies. Detailed daily data on deliveries...

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