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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …

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Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions : Evidence for France

Askenazy, Philippe; Caroli, Eve - 2021

conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work …

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Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2013

This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...

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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 three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....

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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa - 2020

We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country's required upper...

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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023

In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the...

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions : An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2021

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...

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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Muravyev, Alexander - 2011

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority studentsﾒ demand for, as well as opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university...

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