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Knowledge-based capital is a key factor for productivity growth. Over the past 15 years, it has been increasingly … recognised that knowledge-based capital comprises much more than technological knowledge and that these other components are … indicators for knowledge-based capital, often denoted as intangible capital, on the basis of publicly available data from online …
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international...
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To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
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