The author’s interest in the design of economic policy regarding education and innovation has motivated his research as a doctoral candidate. Four independent projects have emerged, each of which deals with basic research problems of education and innovation economics. All but the first take a...

This dissertation contributes to the theoretical understanding of the determinants and consequences of productive government activity for the economic performance of a country’s economy. Chapter 2 gives a comprehensive survey of the recent theoretical literature on the link between productive...

The recent release of the final results for the 2001 Census presents an opportunity to assess the net change in employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the period covering the first two Howard administrations. This paper uses demographic techniques to make valid comparisons over time,...

Economists are torn between basically three schools of thoughts where the first theory states that the population growth will stimulate the economic growth of a country and other believes that the population growth will bring detrimental or adverse impact to the economic growth. Not only that,...

En este trabajo se estima la contribución del crecimiento demográfico a la migración bilateral por medio de un modelo gravitacional y se utilizan los resultados para proyectar flujos migratorios basados en las previsiones de crecimiento demográfico de las Naciones Unidas. Para ello se...

Abstract: A multiple frame survey design was used to study establishment and household characteristics and to make inferences about the population of interest. The methodology required for frame construction, sampling, field enumeration, and estimation is illustrated. The nine-county Kentucky...

Seminal papers of Solow (1957) and Swan (1956) stimulated debate among economists on the role of technical change in productivity improvements and for that matter economic growth. The consensus is that technological change accounts for a significant proportion of gross national product (GNP)...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...

This case examines technological entrepreneurship and human capital in a remote village in southeast India. Sethu Sethunarayanan, director of the nongovernment organization (NGO) Center for Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), uses technology to improve the lives of impoverished people,...

Principal Topic In this paper we seek to highlight the important intermediate role that the gestation process plays in entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural perspective and argue that it is not only...