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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector
Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018
located. The main results indicate that firms with a larger share of women in the knowledge creation and innovation process …This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882005
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements : cross-country and intertemporal comparisons
Luongo, Patrizia - 2015
This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (WEEOp, IEOp) whose components provide: (i) A measure of social welfare which accounts for the achievement of less-advantaged pupils and (ii) a synthetic index of inequality in educational opportunities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511256
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Anti-discrimination measures in education : a comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634586
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A classical model of education, growth and distribution
Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017
We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596523
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Horizontal inequality and data challenges
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
and policy, there are notable gaps and weaknesses in our empirical knowledge about how it manifests within and across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846201
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD
Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021
We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510015
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FDI spillover effects on innovation activities of knowledge-using and knowledge-creating firms : evidence from an emerging economy
Vujanović, Nina; Hoshi, Iraj; Hisarciklilar, Mehtap; … - 2022
among firms that undertake innovation through knowledge use rather than through knowledge generation. …The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162218
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243522
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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? : unemployment, gender, and research productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687489