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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada
Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching...
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Formación profesional, pymes e innovación en Navarra
Olazaran Rodríguez, Mikel; Otero Gutiérrez, Beatriz; … - In: Cuadernos de Gestión (2013)
Los estudios recientes sobre sistemas de innovación no han prestado suficiente atención al papel que los centros de Formación Profesional y los trabajadores técnicos pueden jugar en los procesos de innovación. Este estudio parte de una revisión del estado de la cuestión en la literatura...
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Innovation, Productivity, and Training
Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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Private Sector Accounting Education in Russia
Preobragenskaya, Galina - 2006
The Russian Finance Ministry has declared that all banks and large Russian enterprises must prepare their financial statements based on international financial reporting standards (IFRS) as of January 1, 2004, a full year ahead of the European Union deadline for EU member countries. The problem...
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A Comparative Study of Accounting Education in Ukraine and the USA
McGee, Robert W. - 2005
This study compares and contrasts the accounting education provided by Ukrainian universities with that given at American universities. Two typical universities were chosen for comparison purposes, one Ukrainian and one American. Their curricula were compared and evaluated. Ukrainian accounting...
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Spreadsheet Software as a Teaching and Learning Tool : Perspectives from an Undergraduate Financial Modelling Subject
Ahmed, Rafiuddin - 2014
Technology based teaching of accounting curriculum is widely researched by accounting educators. This paper reports the findings of the use of computers and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program as a means to reflect on, and to enhance prior learning, of financial accounting, managerial accounting...
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La e-Capacitación: Estrategia Competitiva del siglo XXI
Meza-Jaques, Jessica; Carolina Pacheco M. - In: Panorama Administrativo Journal 2 (2007) 2, pp. 161-170
La realidad nacional, acuerdos bilaterales o multilaterales, los avances tecnológicos, y un mundo en constante evolución, nos obligan a un planteamiento radical de los desarrollos educativos. Pretender que la formación de los individuos se reduzca sólo al periodo escolar, es mutilar toda...
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Education, training and skill development policies in Arab Gulf countries: Macro-micro overview
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper uses a combination of secondary and primary data to provide a more comprehensive analysis of education, training and skill development policies in the Gulf countries. Different from earlier studies an interesting element in our analysis is that we discuss both the supply and demand...
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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new secondary and primary data. A novel element in our paper is that we use new primary macro and micro (firm) surveys data to discuss and compare the macro and micro perspectives...
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COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS
Rivera, Juan Carlos Alicea - In: Business Education and Accreditation 3 (2011) 1, pp. 101-111
The formation of communities of practice in business represents, possibly, the best way to manage knowledge bases in organizations since they integrate the most important dimensions in knowledge management: the technological dimension, the strategic dimension and the cultural or behavioral...
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