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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education toLow and Middle Income Countries: The Need toReview, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
Holzmann, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
effectiveness of financial education in low and middleincome countries. The two activities and their staging have been motivated by …
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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cellphoneson Productivity in a Diffi cult Business Climate:Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators toovercome constraints associated … owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by usinginformation on the regional presence of … averageregional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoptionimproves value-added per worker by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360554
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Ratesin the Portuguese Economy: The Role ofOpenness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour marketrigidity in the determination … sectorsand that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technologysectors. We use this index in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360573
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
proposes a simple theory ofskill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross-country, historical andmicro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360578
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth:The Case of Chinese Provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
trend (purely externalnon-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters).We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … to producer specificexternal economic factors. These exogenous technology shifters are aggregated (via hedonicaggregator …
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Corporate R&D and Firm Effi ciency:Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360610
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Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation:Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculatethe contributions of disaggregated units …-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding furtherassumptions about technology and market structure (firms minimize costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360614
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Technological Capabilities and Patterns ofCooperation of UK Firms:A Regional Investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
highlighted within the UKGovernment’s framework for Science & Technology.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360644
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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
Almenberg, Johan; Gerdes, Christer - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, anexample of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making.We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy arenegatively correlated in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353904
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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the questionif it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributingmuch less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs?In the crisis...
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