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Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

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A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Bolli, Thomas - 2009

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national …

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Theoretical and methodological framework for measuring the robustness of social institutions in education and training

Renold, Ursula; Rageth, Ladina; Caves, Katherine; … - 2017

Social institutions are relatively stable patterns of behavior or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. The robustness of such institutions underlies their effectiveness at solving problems, but such robustness is difficult to assess. Building on...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Arbeitsplatzrisiko : ein Matching-Ansatz

Christensen, Björn - 2001

Die vorliegende Arbeit befaßt sich mit den Effekten beruflicher Weiterbildung auf die Entlassungswahrscheinlichkeit und die Wahrscheinlichkeit eigenmotivierter Kündigungen westdeutscher Arbeitnehmer. Als Datengrundlage dient das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) 1984-1999. Zur Berücksichtigung...

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Horizontal and vertical polarization : task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy

Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019

We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...

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Is technological change really skills-biased? : firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2019

This paper extends and refines the concept of ICT-driven skills-biased technological change by disentangling the effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently affect firms' production processes, we investigate the...

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Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2018

This paper uses Swiss firm-level panel data to estimate how complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We subdivide workers by education into four groups: no post-secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET),...

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Present bias and underinvestment in education? : long-run effects of childhood exposure to booms in Colombia

Carrillo, Bladimir - 2019

This paper examines the long-run impacts of income shocks by exploiting variation in coffee cultivation patterns within Colombia and world coffee prices during cohorts' school-going years in a differences-in-differences framework. The results indicate that cohorts who faced higher returns to...

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