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Adult learning, economic growth and the distribution of income
Stauvermann, Peter; Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-12
Technological change causes three consequences: it guarantees economic growth, it requires employees to acquire more skills and human capital, and it increases inequality if employees are not capable adapting to new technologies. The second consequence makes it almost necessary for employees to...
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Estimating the effects of human capital constraints on innovation in the Caribbean
Khadan, Jeetendra - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-18
Human capital, as reflected in education levels and skills, and innovation is an important engine of economic growth …. The Caribbean is deficient in both: lower than expected GDP growth rates are accompanied by relatively low innovation at … paper exploits firm-level data covering 13 Caribbean countries to examine the extent to which innovation, a key driver of …
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Actor fluidity and knowledge persistence in regional inventor networks
Fritsch, Michael; Zoellner, Moritz - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 12, pp. 1-20
well as the knowledge of new inventors affect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimated the persistence of knowledge in the inventor networks of nine … German regions using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates, we analyzed how the size and …
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Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty : national survey of children's health
Assari, Shervin - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
According to the Blacks’ Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are systemically smaller for Black compared to White families. One hypothesis is that due to the existing structural racism that encompasses residential segregation, low quality of...
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Does corruption impact firm innovation? : evidence from Portugal
Cerdeira, Jorge; Lourenço, Diogo - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 7, pp. 1-10
This paper aims to analyze the impact of corruption on firm innovation in Portugal, using data from the World Bank … endogeneity in the corruption variable. Our results show that corruption fosters innovation in Portugal, regardless of the … dependent variable we use to measure innovation. We have also analyzed the effect of corruption on innovation in foreign and …
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Do firms R&D collaborations with the science system and enterprise group partners stimulate their product and process innovations?
Odei, S. A.; Stejskal, Jan - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/43, pp. 1-13
There is a growing consensus that knowledge drives firms' process and product innovations. An important source of these … group. This paper aimed to examine firms' innovation collaborations with science systems and enterprise group partners and … Republic and Hungary. For our empirical analysis, we used the truncated data from the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey (CIS …
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The determining factors of the delocalization of Italian companies to East European countries
Muço, Klodian; Karma, Emiljan - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 11, pp. 1-16
Reflections on the factors that influence the delocalization of Italian companies to other countries, arising from a rapidly changing world economy, offer invaluable insight into companies facing similar tough choices. Usually, this decision is attributed to economic, fiscal, and institutional...
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Why migrate : for study or for work?
Brezis, Elise S. - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-12
Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...
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Log periodic power analysis of critical crashes : evidence from the Portuguese stock market
Gonçalves, Tiago Cruz; Quiñones Borda, Jorge Victor; … - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
. This is particularly interesting since if the model performs robustly for Portugal, which is a small market with liquidity …
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The relationship between the company's value and the tone of the risk-related narratives : the case of Portugal
Oliveira, Michele Gendelsky de; Azevedo, Graça Maria … - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-28
The present study aims to identify the impact of the tone of risk reporting narratives on company market value. The paper uses a sample of 34 Portuguese non-finance companies with shares traded at the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange market. The paper conducts an automated content analysis of the...
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