Showing 1 - 10 of 13
occupation controls, reduces the return to between 3-10%. We explore the return on different IT skills and also find a return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928708
. The mediating factors considered are cognitive skills, noncognitive traits, educational attainment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928813
interaction among economic agents, both individuals and firms. We provide evidence that firm size and, especially, skills are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745274
genuinely over-educated graduates principally lack non-academic skills such as management and leadership. Additionally, genuine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745327
We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745994
In this paper we evaluate the labour market value of basic skills in the UK, focusing on the wage and employment … returns to having better literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on literacy and numeracy assessments undertaken by all cohort … basic skills, in terms of wage returns, has increased over time, using a cross cohort analysis based on the 1958 National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746027
Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship suffers from the lack of consensus on the most crucial question: what makes an entrepreneur? A recent theory developed by Edward Lazear suggests that individuals mastering a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746173
) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …. Training programs to support advanced Internet skills among primary school children should be considered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126351
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126604
Although research findings have been equivocal as to whether the use of social networking sites (SNSs) increases experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and public concern. The present article examines whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071426