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Improving Education Quality in South Africa
Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...
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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276931
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Gross Earning Inequalities in OECD Countries and Major Non-member Economies: Determinants and Future Scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276956
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The Economic Value of Human Capital
Emanuela, Gulie Alexandra - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 3, pp. 48-48
The human factor created by physical work and/or intellectual property of all existing material, is unequivocally active value of any work, ie human capital translates into different activities, specialized or not, it creates these individuals. History of the term human capital has experienced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711170
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The Balanced Scorecard – System of Indicators for the Assessment of Intellectual Capital
Roxana-Manuela, Dicu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 572-576
, using this system to assess and measure knowledge management provides suitable indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632054
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The New Labour Content and the Sustainable Development
Claudia, ªerban Andreea - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 2046-2049
The labour content, its structures and the finality of the social action were always in a permanent relation with the historical type of society and with the manner of producing goods and services. The humanity passing to the global economy, to a new manner of economic growth places in front of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632325
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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital
Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance … of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … of the services that compound the low starting point of Portugal regarding education. Modernizing the Portuguese economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046031
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Les caractéristiques des champions : déterminants et incidences sur le succès des innovations
Roure, Lionel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1999
correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most … innovative projects. The seniority of champions explains positively the innovation success, but the hierarchical level has no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861514
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Policies to support sustainable long-term growth in New Zealand
Cheung, Calista - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
innovation leveraged off the country’s strong primary industry knowledge base. Continuing to raise skill levels and the … technologies de l’information et de la communication, ainsi qu’une innovation tirant parti de la solide base de connaissances du …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276855
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Boosting Productivity in Russia: Skills, Education and Innovation
Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
persist.<P> Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and … Russie : Les compétences, l'éducation et l'innovation<BR>Le marché du travail en Russie est très flexible. Les entreprises s …
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