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We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...
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being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational …, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three di erent types of education for employees with at least 16 years of … innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of …
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We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
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This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. -- Cultural Diversity ; Innovation ; Skilled …
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Which types of networks favor the diffusion of innovations in the sense that an innovation whose intrinsic benefits are … very large payoff benefits in favor of the innovation. -- Diffiusion of innovations ; Small World Networks ; Contagion …
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models is becoming crucial to increase resource productivity and achieve competitive advantages. Notwithstanding eco-innovation … consensus exists on the boundaries and interlinkages among the concepts of Eco-Innovation, Circular Economy and Circular … analysed firms in Emilia Romagna, in terms of cleaner production strategies. By contrast, any business innovation linked to the …
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This paper examines the implications of that workers may not be able to estimate their true costs of acquiring skills. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased...
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This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intence competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical...
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