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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266066
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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403075
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is … concerned, African countries will in differing degrees experience three varieties of industrialization, all influenced by new … services now perform functions previously expected from manufacturing. A third variety of future industrialization is labelled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122074
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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698640
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Work-related learning and skill development in Europe : does initial skill mismatch matter?
Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, … - 2016
This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal learning on the job are related to employee skill...
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Preschoolers' self-regulation, skill differentials, and early educational outcomes
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Bela, Anika; Heineck, Guido - 2019
Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by investigating the relationship between preschoolers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964919
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Training, human capital, and gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Said, Mona - 2019
non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138459
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IT skills, occupation specificity and job separations
Eggenberger, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired IT skills and the specificity of their occupational training. We categorize workers' occupational skill bundles along two independent dimensions. First, we distinguish between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448550
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Mining in Arctic and non-Arctic regions : a socioeconomic assessment
Frederiksen, Anders; Kadenic, Maja Due - 2016
In this paper, we study how mines change local societies in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the Arctic region. Our study is based on register data at the municipality level from Norway, Sweden, and Finland for the period 1986 to 2013. The applied econometric model allows for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457391