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Regionale Bildungsstrukturen und Beschäftigung in Deutschland

Tarazona, Mareike - 2007

in dieser Studie Daten zu Bildung verwendet, um die Bedeutung von Humankapital mit Daten auf der Ebene der deutschen … Raumordnungsregionen zu überprüfen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass regionale Disparitäten für das Humankapital bestehen, die nicht im … Branchenzusammensetzung erweist sich als moderierende Variable für die Wirkung von Humankapital auf die Beschäftigungsentwicklung... …

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Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum

Ursprung, Heinrich - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut <Kreuzlingen>

Ökonomen haben ein recht einfaches Weltbild. Das gilt insbesondere auchwenn sie sich mit Bildungsfragen beschäftigen. Ökonomen verstehen Bildung nämlich als Ausbildung, das heisst als Investition. Wie jede andere Investition verursacht ja auch die Bildung Kosten...

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Bestimmungsfaktoren des Erwerbs der allgemeinen Hochschulreife in Deutschland

Balsmeier, Benjamin; Peters, Heiko - Institut für Ökonomische Bildung <Münster, Westfalen> - 2008

Für Deutschlanf´d als ressourcenarmes Hochlohnland ist die Bildung von Humankapital ein bedeutender Faktor für das … Wirtschaftswachstum. Im Vergleich zu anderen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ist der Anteil der Bevölkerung mit einem tertiären …

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Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: An Overviewof the Iowa State University Alumni Survey

Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu; Orazem, Peter F.; Kimle, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an increasing body of evidence suggestingentrepreneurship that...

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The Role of Agriculture and Human Capital inEconomic Growth: Farmers, Schooling, and Health

Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to economic growth and development over time and across countries. Particular attention is paid to the roles of improvements in agricultural technology and of the human capital of...

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Theoretical Impediments to Understanding B2B Electronic Commerce

Reimers, Kai; Li, Mingzhi - Technische Hochschule <Aachen> / Lehr- und … - 2002

This paper proposes that the lack of a theoretical framework able to address policyissues on the firm as well as the industry level in an integrated manner contributes toa failure of developing effective e-commerce policies. Specifically, theoreticalapproaches fall into the two broad categories...

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The Geography and Determinantsof Entrepreneurship

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial locationas a micro-determinant of occupational choice, although there are compellingreasons to posit that spatial location influences economic behavior. Using Bayesiansemiparametric methodologies and geoadditive techniques,...

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The Growth and Decline of Small firmsIn Developing Countries

Coad, Alexander; Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries.The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on smallsamples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairlyrepresentative of the structure of small business in India....

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Gates, hubs and urban primacyin Sub-Saharan Africa

Pholo Bala, Alain - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2009

We investigate the impact of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internalgeography of a domestic economy linked to the rest of the World through a hub. We address that issue bydeveloping two three regions model, namely a version of the Footlose Entrepreneur and a...

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For whose benefit? Benefit-sharing within Contractual ABSAgreementsfrom an Economic Perspective– the Example of Pharmaceutical Bioprospection

Buchs, Ann Kathrin; Jasper, Jörg - Universität <Göttingen> / Department für … - 2007

The extinction of genetic resources as a consequence of land development, especially in ‘biodiversity hot spots’like rain forests in South America or South East Asia, is becoming a serious problem - not only for local communitiesbut also for international firms in the pharmaceutical...

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