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Research Scientist Productivity and Firm Size: Evidence from Panel Data on Inventors

Lee, Sangjoon; Kim, Jinyoung - Econometric Society - 2004

of workers specifically engaged in innovation and firm size in the pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries. In both …

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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …

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Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...

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Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? – A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data

Arvanitis, Spyros - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …

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Why are poor countries poor?

Cohen, Daniel; Soto, Marcelo - Econometric Society - 2004

We attempt to explain why standard explanations of the poverty of nations are unsatisfactory. We first argue that human capital is low in poor countries because its production has increasing returns with respect to life expectancy. We then show that the reason why capital does not flow to poor...

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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation

St-Pierre, Marc; Mejia, Daniel - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where agents face different costs of access to the educational system. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities (in the form of differential costs of access to the educational process) and...

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Measuring the consumption value of higher education

Alstadsæter, Annette - Econometric Society - 2004

The consumption value of education is an important, but rather ignored factor behind the individual's educational choice. This paper suggests a method for measuring the consumption value of education in a compensating differentials framework when the ability bias is corrected for. As an example,...

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Dispersion of Human Capital and Economic Growth

Park, Jungsoo - Econometric Society - 2004

Based on a theoretical consideration of human capital production technology, this study empirically investigates the growth implication of dispersion of population distribution in terms of educational attainment levels. Based on a pooled 5-year interval time-series data set of 94 developed and...

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University Prestige and Choice of Major Field: Evidence from South Korea

Kang, Changhui - Econometric Society - 2004

Unlike previous studies on major choice of university students, this study considers a university's prestige in their choice of a major field. This study sets up an estimation model for a joint decision about where to go to university (prestigious or non-prestigious) and what major field to...

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Recruitment and Apprenticeship Training

Mohrenweiser, Jens - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

The paper assess the potential free-riding of non-training firms on the training efforts of training firms and analyses differences in recruitment of apprenticeship graduates trained elsewhere between training and non-training firms. The paper shows that only 5.6 per cent of non-training firms...

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