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Study on university-business cooperation in the US

Ranga, Marina; Hoareau, Cecile; Durazzi, Niccolo; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

University-Business Cooperation (UBC) is a relationship in flux, reflecting issues specific to the transition from an industrial to a knowledge society. UBC is undergoing a transformation from a dyadic university-business relationship, aimed at solving firm problems, sourcing new products or...

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Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?

Bandiera, Oriana; Das, Narayan; Burgess, Robin; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...

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Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

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Fixed-term contracts and unemployment: an efficiency wage analysis

Guell, Maia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

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A picture of European unemployment: success and failure

Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …

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A test between unemployment theories using matching data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

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