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and financing is more effective for labor activities. Additionally, financing support appears more effective for women and …
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and financing is more effective for labor activities. Additionally, financing support appears more effective for women and …
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compares financing patterns and trends and provides examples of earmarking for social insurance and assistance programmes. It … concludes with a discussion of carbon pricing as a potential source of financing social support programmes. …
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Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance. Simultaneity issues that potentially bias this type of...
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compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions.
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and with the technology level. This paper contributes by bringing together these two views, both theoretically and … empirically. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on … labour market developments. According to our estimations, whereas employment in high-technology sectors seems to be …
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trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of 'technology'. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …
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There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...
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