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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …

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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes

Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...

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Manufacturing firms in Africa: Some stylized facts about wages and productivity

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …

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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...

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How would population growth affect investment in the future? Asymmetric panel causality evidence for Africa.

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. We examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the relationships...

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Dezvoltarea şi perfecţionarea relaţiei inovaţie – capital intelectual – cerinţă a performanţei organizaţionale în firmele româneşti

Rizea; Carmen, Ionela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In a knowledge economy, innovation is the competitiveness key and the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in social systems is the result of collaboration between individuals and communities of interest. Managers can not measure the innovative capacity of the organization, but they may...

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How would population growth affect investment in the future? Asymmetric panel causality evidence for Africa.

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting concern over rising unemployment and depleting per capita income accruing there-from. We look at the issue in this paper from a long run perspective by examining the nature of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109093

Long-term effects of population growth on aggregate investment dynamics: selected country evidence for Africa

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The role of Africa in world demographic change is primary and consequences on future investment dynamics could provide some insight on how unemployment, economic migration and other issues resulting there-from could be addressed. Using Johansen and Granger-causality models on data from 1977 to...

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Cognitive capital, governance, and the wealth of nations

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Rindermann, Heiner; Christainsen, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Good governance or “government effectiveness” (per the World Bank) is seen as a critical factor for the wealth of nations insofar as it shapes political and economic institutions and affects overall economic performance. The quality of governance, in turn, depends on the attributes of the...

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Absorptive Capacity and Innovative Capability: An Approach to Estimation

Polterovich, Victor; Tonis, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The concepts of absorptive capacity and innovative capability have been introduced to describe abilities of a country to imitate and, accordingly, to create more advanced technologies. In this paper we suggest new indicators of these two abilities. To calculate them, we develop an endogenous...

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