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Technology appropriation in knowledge economy: innovation and intellectual property in Latin American software industry Intellectual property rights aim at providing incentives for innovation, but can also constitute a burden for technological diffusion. This article discusses the conflicts...
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infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, incentives policies, education, health and scientific technological production. We used …
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the income. The literature appears that among the determinant of this disparity, besides historical factors, the education … variable education and your impacts on the income of the work. The adopted model will be a hybrid of the considered square … minima proposed by Hoffmann and Scampini (1996) and Mincer function, trying to capture the effects of the variable education …
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The progress, the growth and the development are concepts related to the intrinsic qualities of the existing productive factors, either in the regional or national perspective. Therefore, the theory of the human capital launches the idea that low levels of scholarship do not show great profits...
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There is important evidence of a recent upsurge of so-called residual inequality, i.e. wage inequality that cannot be explained by workers? observable attributes, such as schooling. The main purpose of this article is to review the intuitions and results of some of the main theoretical models...
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differentials by mother’s education. The exercise shows that the historical improvement in mother’s education compensated the …
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Earnings equations for occupied persons in the state of Minas Gerais are estimated using data from the 2000 Demographic Census of Brazil. Such equations allow us to evaluate the effect of age, gender, schooling, color (race), position in the occupation, weekly working time and other factors on...
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The present study’s objective is to analyze the violence reduction impacts of the Program Community School (Programa Comunidade Escola) on the participant and not participant schools and on their respective communities. First of all, a classification of different forms of violence is carried...
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decades has provided a lot of empirical evidences on the incidence of over and under-education across developed countries in … different periods, and returns on ORU (over-education, required education, and under-education). A recent wave of empirical … controlling for unobserved workers heterogeneity? (iii) Is over-education a deliberate investment decision of workers in their …
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O presente Report Card apresenta uma primeira visão global das desigualdades no bem-estar das crianças em 24 dos países mais ricos do mundo. São examinadas três dimensões da desigualdade: bem-estar material, educação e saúde. Em cada um dos casos e para cada país, a questão que se...
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