Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 139
Cover Image
Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new secondary and primary data. A novel element in our paper is that we use new primary macro and micro (firm) surveys data to discuss and compare the macro and micro perspectives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195551
Cover Image
Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme
Bauchmüller, Robert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes are presumed to have positive effects in particular for children who are at risk of failing during their school careers. However, there is disagreement on whether such programmes should be more teacher and curriculum based or rather centred on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653057
Cover Image
Occupation Choice: Family, Social and Market Influences
Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010
The advance of knowledge-based societies has modified the labor markets and qualification requirements. In this sense, and considering that individual choices about careers and occupations have pervasive social effects, there is a growing interest from both academics and policy makers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592411
Cover Image
Choosing a career in Science and Technology
Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010
Student choice is at the center of many discussions about higher education policy. At the same time, and regardless of the emphasis put on achieving an important endowment of graduates trained in science and engineering, participation in these fields is stagnated or declining. Evidence suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478943
Cover Image
Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195546
Cover Image
Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150800
Cover Image
Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel
Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150805
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies in ICT SMEs in Enlarged Europe (EU25)
Lal, Kaushalesh; Dunnewijk, Theo - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this study. Findings of … innovation strategies experienced more employment growth, higher profitability, and better sales dynamics than those that adopted … occasional innovation approach. Market growth of continuous innovating firms realized faster pace than other type of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150815
Cover Image
Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Dynamics in Healthcare - Towards a framework for analyzing innovation in Tuberculosis control in India
Engel, Nora - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct … relevance to the case and examines what theoretical framework is useful to look at the problem of innovation in public health in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150770
Cover Image
The Voyage of the Beagle in Innovation Systems Land.Explorations on Sectors, Innovation, Heterogeneity and Selection
Srholec, Martin; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150778