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Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Service Sector in Uruguay

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … positive, while process innovation appears to have no effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …

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Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity, and Employment Generation in Uruguay: The Microeconometric Evidence

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity … and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition … in terms of skills was studied, using data from manufacturing firms' innovation surveys, matched against economic …

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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the … more consistently associated with the decision to invest in innovation activities across sectors. The main determinants of …

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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

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OLPC Pre-Pilot Evaluation Report (Haiti)

Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Kipp, Scott; Cruz, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This working paper discusses the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) pilot program carried out by the Haitian Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) conducted in collaboration with the IDB. The OLPC pre-pilot project was implemented at the Ecole Nationale Republique du Chili (ENRC), an...

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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students' Digital Skills in Peru

Cristia, Julian; Bet, Germán; Ibarrarán, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program Title: Tecnología y desarrollo infantil: Evidencia del programa Una computadora por niño

Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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