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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2020
How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development of scarce talent and career choice at the center of a...
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Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance
Lindert, Peter H. - 2009
Both the anomalies of education history, and its less surprising contrasts, fit broad patterns that can be revealed and partially explained using low-tech methods. Over most of human history, contrasts in the output of education were driven mainly by contrasts in the supply of tax support for...
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US-Europe Differences in Technology-Driven Growth : Quantifying the Role of Education
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
European economic growth has been weak, compared to the US, since the 80s. In previous work (Krueger and Kumar, 2003), we argued that the European focus on specialized, vocational education might have been effective during the 60s and 70s, but resulted in a growth gap relative to the US during...
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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to obtain, but enables workers to operate new technologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469295
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Education and Innovation
Biasi, Barbara; Deming, David J.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research. After a brief review of theoretical frameworks on the link between education, innovation, and economic growth, we explore three alternative policies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496097
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Agriculture-led growth transformation process : implication for industrial development in African regions
Saka, Jimoh Olakunle - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 17 (2018) 2, pp. 263-273
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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden
Davis, Steven J. - 1995
The pre-1990 Swedish tax system strongly disfavored younger, smaller and less capital-intensive firms and sectors and discouraged entrepreneurship and family ownership of businesses in favor of institutional ownership. Credit market regulations, the national pension system, employment security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473640
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …
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Creating the "American Way" of Business : Evidence from WWII in the U.S
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
management practices to US firms involved in war production acted as a technology that put them on a higher growth path for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447301
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
"Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household inputs, and test its...
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