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ICT's wide web: a system-level analysis of ICT's industrial diffusion with algorithmic links
Prytkova, Ekaterina - 2021
ICT technologies. The analysisreveals differences in the underlying knowledge base among the overwhelming majority of the … system in the EU28 region. Considering ICT as a technology system, first,I break down ICT into a set of distinct technologies … construct industry-technology links to connect industries with ICT and track ICT's diffusion over the period 1977-2020.The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629043
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The role of skill enhancing trade in Brazil: some evidence from microdata
Araújo, Bruno Cesar; Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the ‘90s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000.Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266683
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Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America
Ács, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - 2008
This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries. Based on a stage of economic development model we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different paths related to competitiveness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271776
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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482866
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The Role of "Skill enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata
Araujo, Bruno Cesar; Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the '90s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000.Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997396
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Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness Dynamics in Latin America.
Acs, Zoltan J.; Amoros, Jose Ernesto - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries. Based on a stage of economic development model we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different paths related to competitiveness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032016
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
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AIDS and dualism: Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - 2009
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...
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A bivariate ordered probit estimator with mixed effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - 2010
In this paper, we discuss the derivation and application of a bivariate ordered probit model with mixed effects. Our approach allows one to estimate the distribution of the effect (gamma) of an endogenous ordered variable on an ordered explanatory variable. By allowing gamma to vary over 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, C. Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2007
Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...
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