Showing 1 - 10 of 64
In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global …. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786404
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431029
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003030717
This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly explained by intra-industry changes during the import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174029
This paper uses matched employer-employee data from South Africa to examine the extent to which technology transfers between firms through the hiring of workers. Allowing for differential spillovers based on observable technology differences between sending and receiving firms, we find strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165554
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001826466
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799798
between two activities: producing goods with the production-related knowledge they already have, and interacting with others … and its rate of learning and real growth. Individuals' time allocation decisions depend on the knowledge distribution … time allocations of everyone in the economy in turn determine the evolution of its knowledge distribution. We construct the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372951
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386218
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429991