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The role of education in regional innovation activities and economic growth: spatial evidence from China

Chi, Wei; Qian, Xiaoye - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology … innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth. However, there is little evidence on the role of human capital in … innovation. Using the Chinese provincial data from 1997 to 2006, we show that workers’ tertiary education is significantly and …

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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach

Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

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Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? – The Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions in Small Firms

Werner, Arndt; Moog, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....

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Knowledge Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Growth: An Industry-level Analysis for OECD Countries

Bournakis, Ioannis; Christopoulos, Dimitris; Mallick, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the...

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Economic growth, human capital and structural change: an empirical analysis

Queirós, Anabela; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

Human capital is identified as one of the main determinants of economic growth and plays an important role in the technological progress of countries. Nevertheless, existing studies have to some extent neglected the importance of human capital on growth via the interaction it can have with a...

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Absorptive capacity and structural congruence: the binding constraints on the acquisition of technology--an analytical survey of the underlying issues

Das, Gouranga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Inextricable links between international trade, growth and role of knowledge-creation are well-established in the economics literature. The issues of creation of technology, its diffusion and actual adoption have been discussed on both theoretical and empirical planes. Effective assimilation of...

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Learning-by-Doing and Its Implications for Economic Growth and International Trade

Mao, Zi-Ying - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper extends the learning-by-doing model of Alwyn Young (1991), which assumes bounded learning-by-doing in each industry and knowledge spillovers, from two perspectives. First, it introduces physical capital as another factor of production in addition to labor. Second, it takes into...

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Humanitarian aid, internal displacement and social impacts in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W.; Osman, Kamal M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The study presented here reviews activities of NGOs in Sudan by surveying and studying the activities of Save the Children of United Kingdom. Activities of NGOs in Sudan were always a controversial issue that resulted in the expulsion of many in 2009. There were also precedents of such...

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Productive Consumption and Growth in Developing Countries

Steger, Thomas M. - EconWPA - 1997

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and, at the same time, increases the productive potential of labour. Theoretical as well as empirical evidence suggests that productive consumption is primarily relevant to low-income countries. From the perspective of growth...

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Mozambique and natural disasters: human capital under threat

Prado C. Alfaiate, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper assesses the effect of a sequence of natural disasters on children’s health that hit Mozambique at the start of the 21st Century. The disasters in question were the floods of 2000 and the droughts of the years 2002 and 2003. Height-for-age z-scores of children between 1 and 3 years...

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