prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in … such an institution characterized by organizational changes and we analyse the determinants of students' e-skills using a … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students' involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany …?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according … high start-up activity in knowledge intensive regions. Group differentiation shows that knowledge stock variables matter …

innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a … operating in knowledge intensive sectors and start-ups belonging to the remaining ones. This separation is done in order to …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the …

scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and …The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … motivates this paper. It analyses why Finnish students performed so much better by estimating educational production functions …

the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …

This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany …

investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …