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Transition Strategies and Labour Market Integration of Greek University Graduates.

Karamessini, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Greece has today the highest youth unemployment rate in the EU-27 while employment precariousness is disproportionately concentrated among young workers. Youth unemployment and employment precariousness are extremely high even among higher education graduates, generating a very long period of...

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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual … by about 13 percent in physics and 16.5 percent in chemistry. …

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Higher education academic salaries in the UK

Collins, Mark; Vignoles, Anna; Walker, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The recent industrial action taken by the Association of University Teachers (AUT) has given the issue of academic pay high prominence in the UK press. There appears to be a remarkable consensus that higher education academic salaries are too low, relative to other groups of workers in the UK,...

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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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Student satisfaction, league tables and University applications

Gibbons, Stephen; Neumayer, Eric; Perkins, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We investigate the impact of information about student satisfaction on university choice, using data from the UK’s National Student Survey (NSS) and on applications to undergraduate degree courses. We show that the NSS has a small, statistically significant effect on applications at the...

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The bright side of social capital: how 'bridging' makes Italian provinces more innovative

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a …’ social capital – based on weak ties – can be identified as the key driver of the process of innovation while ‘bonding’ social … capital is shown to be negative for innovation. Instrumental variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal …

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom

Nickell, S. J.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …

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