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This paper explores the opportunities for integrating Initiative Based Learning (IBL) and Integrated Assessment Models … (IAMs) in order to improve our understanding of learning in the context of societal transition pathways, and more … learning in a very different way, and the two approaches have major structural differences with respect to the geographical as …
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on knowledge generation, their emerging counterparts follow mainly a knowledge-use regime through the application of … existing knowledge and technology. Climbing up the technological ladder can be helped through spillovers from foreign investors … to innovate to productivity) among knowledge-using and knowledge-creating firms in an emerging European economy. The …
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extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach its beneficiaries. We find that IDB …
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This paper explores for the first time the impact of a demand-driven training program on labor turnover at both firm and worker level. Launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC in Portuguese), Pronatec-MDIC allows firms to demand courses which some of their...
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the art and science of expert systems and knowledge engineering. With their grounding in uncertainty and unpredictability … advantages of using quantum logic and computation when applying expert knowledge such as the ability to ask imprecise (inherently …
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and knowledge engineering. With their fundamental grounding in uncertainty and unpredictability, quantum concepts are able …
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We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills that are sufficiently general to be potentially useful for competitors. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in industry-specific human capital, then make wage offers for each...
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This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior evaluations of the program, this one has several advantages. This is the first experimental impact evaluation of Projoven, and also the first to measure impacts over a longer...
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Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a randomized impact evaluation of the youth training program Juventud y Empleo, which includes soft-skills training, to examine its impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the...
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