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In this article we demonstrate, through the case of Egypt, how the emphasis on one specific learning mode from primary through to secondary school, and to a lesser extent, culture, impact learning abilities. We describe how Egyptian students are impaired when confronted to learning modes they...
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creativity, and thereby build an organizational context suited to innovation ambidexterity. Competences were found to have a … competences and organizational context. …
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communication technologies has made competences less dependent upon individuals. Knowledge has been increasingly embodied in firms …
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individuelles de ces derniers, et notamment sur leurs compétences et leur pouvoir. Une troisième partie développe les enseignements …
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sont par nature des dispositifs de mise en réseau de compétences et de connaissances régionales dans une optique de …
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This paper aims at comparing the respective impact of the traditional Human Capital Variables (HCV) and of competences …, experience in the labour market, experience in the company). Their respective supervisors were asked to assess their competences … dimensions show that traditional human capital variables are important determinants for earnings, whereas competences explain the …
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Having received considerable attention from central government and local authorities, French innovation clusters (the so-called ‘pôles de compétitivité') are beginning to be studied by academic researchers and evaluated by consultants. The core of their activity consists of collaborative...
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In the present paper, we consider a two-country, two-good, two-factor general equilibrium model with CIES non-linear preferences, asymmetric technologies across countries and decreasing returns to scale. It is shown that aggregate instability and endogenous fluctuations may occur due to...
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This paper studies the impacts and determinants of trade policy. I use data on applied tariff protection of world countries over 2001-2007 to estimate sector-level trade elasticities. I then calibrate a structural gravity model of world trade. I compute the impacts of trade agreements which were...
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Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy...
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