multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the …

resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …

national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …

educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …

) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial … entrepreneurship. Unlike institutional void theory, we see social entrepreneurship as conditional on institutional quality, but …We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances …

administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation … traditional informal activities is related to increased outsourcing by formal manufacturing enterprises. …

(increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …