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Financial Constraints, Innovation Performance and Sectoral Disaggregation

Efthyvoulou, Georgios; Vahter, Priit - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2012

How do the effects of financial constraints on innovation performance vary by sector and firm characteristics? This paper uses innovation survey data from eleven European countries to examine the heterogeneity of these effects. So far, there has been a lack of cross-country micro-level studies...

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What did the Maoists ever do for us? Education and marriage of women exposed to civil conflict in Nepal

Valente, Christine - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2011

education and marriage. Overall conflict intensity had a small, positive effect on female educational attainment, whereas …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003230

Human Capital, Culture and the Onset of the Demographic Transition

Cuberes, David; Basso, Alberto - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2012

This paper uses estimates of the dates at which different countries have experienced their demographic transitions to examine the main historical determinants of these transitions. We first show that genetic distance to the United Kingdom, a measure of cultural relatedness used in Spolaore and...

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Part time employment and happiness: A cross-country analysis

Lenton, Pamela - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2011

This paper analyses levels of over-education and wage returns to education for males across eleven regions of the UK …; also, differences are found in the return to the ‘correct’ level of education in each region, in each case associated with … found that, after controlling for the level of education acquired, there exists a premium to the ‘correct’ level of …

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Social Interaction and Intergenerational Skill Transfer

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006

education and social interaction. Furthermore, our results suggest that children´s scores in reading, mathematics and vocabulary …

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The Over-Education of UK Immigrants and Minority Ethnic Groups: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey.

Lindley, Joanne Kathryn - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2007

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The Cost Structure of Higher Education in Further Education Colleges in England

Lenton, Pamela - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006

This paper examines the cost of the provision of higher education courses within further education colleges in England …. The further education sector is complex because of the wide range of courses it provides both in terms of subject type and … education sector. Cost functions for a sample of 96 colleges over a two-year period, from 2000 to 2002, are fitted using a panel …

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Returns to Education and Risky Financial Investment

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl; Garino, Gaia - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an international perspective, we analyse individual level data from the British Household Panel...

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Attitudes and motivations of Economics students: Some recent evidence.

Dietrich, Michael; Rowen, Donna - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2007

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Bullying, Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Child Development Study.

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2005

We explore the effect of bullying at school on the educational attainment of a sample of individuals drawn from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). Our empirical findings suggest that school bullying has an adverse effect on human capital accumulation both at and beyond school....

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