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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal
Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011
Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274665
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour
Grashof, Nils - 2020
Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200285
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723599
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); Sanders, Mark (contributor) - 2008
generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767918
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation : the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle
Guerzoni, Marco (contributor) - 2007
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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2003
We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives both types of parents the same level of utility. If parental actions are not fully observable, however, the policy maker has to take into account the incentive-compatibility...
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