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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data

Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017

ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...

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Erasmus exchange program : a matter of (relatively) older students

Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Gibbs, B. G. - 2020

This study contributes to the literature on long-term effects of relative age (i.e. age differences between classmates in compulsory school) by examining tertiary education outcomes. We investigate whether there is evidence of relative age effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus...

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Capturing the educational and economic impacts of school closures in Poland

Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, … - 2022

The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with...

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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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Properties of knowledge base and firm survival : evidence from a sample of French manufacturing firms

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 80 (2013) 8, pp. 1469-1483

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Did the global financial crisis impact firms' innovation performance? : the role of internal and external knowledge capabilities in high and low tech inustries

Zouaghi, Ferdaous; Sánchez, Mercedes; Garcia Martinez, … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 132 (2018), pp. 92-104

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How does the ambidexterity of technological learning routine affect firm innovation performance within industrial clusters? : the moderating effects of knowledge attributes

Guo, Jingjing; Guo, Bin; Zhou, Jianghua; Wu, Xiaobo - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 155 (2020), pp. 1-15

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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?

Müller, Kathrin - 2009

investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … academic knowledge is investigated by quantifying the effect of the time period which elapses after the founder has left …

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