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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
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account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within … knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
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knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
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interesting and potentially important object of study because the most valuable assets of these firms take the form of knowledge … - particularly knowledge of the needs and interests of clients. We argue that the two most distinctive organizational features of …
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occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle …
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findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm … ; knowledge stock ; panel data ; perpetual inventory method …
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This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...
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The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
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