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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …

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Manufacturing firms in Africa: Some stylized facts about wages and productivity

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …

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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes

Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...

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Knowledge Assisted Innovation

Benchimol, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In the present world, change has become a necessity for any organization. This change may be the consequence of evolution of technology, market needs or users behaviour as well as, of course,environment (legal, geopolitical,climatic,cultural and so on); it imposes innovations into numerous...

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Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth

Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This article contributes to the growth literature by developing a formal growth model that provides the basis for studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the transitional and steady state growth rates of output. The...

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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA – A CASE OF ERITREA

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...

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The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Obikili, Nonso - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa's history of slave exporting to its current economic development. In this paper I show that differences in investment in education may be one of the channels through which that history has affected current development. I combine data on...

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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Education, innovation and economic growth in Cameroon

Edielle, Ngwa; Jackson, T. H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate technologically (innovation or imitation) the role of human capital in Cameroon as far as economic growth is concerned. Higher education is designed to be the main technological aspect of human capital. Theoretically, the stock of knowledge...

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Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria

Obikili, Nonso - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

I examine the relationship between social and human capital in colonial Western Nigeria. Using data on expenditure of cocoa farmers in 1952, I show that farmers in townships with higher social spending individually spend more on education. The relationship holds after controlling for various...

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