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"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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informality. The focus of this report is on exploring options to enhance worker welfare and firm productivity through access to …
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creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …
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creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …
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concern: relatively few persons of working age are employed, and many of those who are employed have low-productivity jobs … policymakers in Armenia. Furthermore, it is important that in the longer term, wage growth does not exceed labor productivity …
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"This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and comparative perspective and a spacial perspective are essential to discuss the relevance of university-local industry linkages to local regional economic development. The...
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"This study looks at the contribution of the university system in Vietnam to the socioeconomic development in general, and their relationship with firms, dynamic actors of the economy in particular. The study uses different methods of research, from reliance on secondary data to interviews with...
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"The success of the Indian software industry is now internationally recognized. Consequently, scholars, policymakers, and industry officials everywhere generally anticipate the increasing competitiveness of India in high technology activities. Using a structural framework, the author argues that...
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Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources and fully internalized within local ways of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process...
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and productivity of job and worker reallocation. Then they investigate the effects of privatization, product and labor … market liberalization, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary … reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth. Privatization has not only …
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