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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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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
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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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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558130
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119250
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Verhaltensweisen und Einstellungen der Bevölkerung hemmen die Innovationsfähigkeit in Deutschland
Belitz, Heike; Kim, Tanja; Werwatz, Axel - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 73 (2006) 8, pp. 89-98
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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …
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