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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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delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on …
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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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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of U.S. skilled …
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approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …
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are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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