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The Industry and Policy Context for Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: Market Analysis, Future Prospects and Key Challenges in Videogames, Serious Games and Gamification.
Stewart, James; Misuraca, Gianluca - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
of sectors. These actors are trying to develop knowledge, products, services and a market for the use of digital games … them to support innovation and uptake of effective digital game-based approaches to empowerment and social inclusion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169843
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The Potential of Digital Games for Empowerment and Social Inclusion of Groups at Risk of Social and Economic Exclusion: Evidence and Opportunity for Policy
Stewart, James; Bleumers, Lizzy; Centeno - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
service improvement, and employment and growth, but significant activity is still required in research, innovation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169907
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884327
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From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly in lifetime earnings.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934642
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Improving Education Quality in South Africa
Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276875
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Gross Earning Inequalities in OECD Countries and Major Non-member Economies: Determinants and Future Scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276956
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Measuring progress in reading achievement between primary and secondary school across countries
Jakubowski, Maciej; Pokropek, Artur - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011
This paper discusses a method to compare progress in reading achievement from primary to secondary school across countries. The method is similar to value-added models that take into account intake levels when comparing student progress in different schools. Value-added models are preferred over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366334
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Right Peer, Right Now? Endogenous Peer Effects and Achievement in Victorian Primary Schools
McVicar, Duncan; Moschion, Julie; Ryan, Chris - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
This paper presents estimates of endogenous peer effects in pupils’ school achievement using data on national test scores, across multiple subjects and cohorts, for the population of primary school pupils in Years 3 and 5 (aged 7/8 and 9/10 years) in the Australian state of Victoria....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674377
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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HUMAN CAPITAL IN SERVICE INNOVATION STRATEGY
Fox, Gavin L.; Royle, M. Todd - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 29-47
The purpose of this research is to examine a driving force behind innovation, human capital, which we contend is useful … in identifying and exploiting opportunities in both goods and services contexts. Traditional predictors of innovation … theory, this research proposes that investment in employees is an innovation predictor that embraces the nuances of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212163