The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …

This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und betonen dabei Humankapital und Unternehmertum. Empirisch wurde gezeigt, dass sich die jordanische … Entwicklungspolitik stark mit diesen Handlungsempfehlungen ?berschneidet. Jordanien f?rdert Humankapital und Unternehmertum durch … Schw?chen Wachstum und Entwicklung m?glich sind, wenn man Wissen und Humankapital f?rdert. Dennoch weist Jordanien viele …

The relationship between technology, productivity and employment is a complex one. Increased productivity can lead not … just to increased market share, but through falling relative prices can help expand markets, and through product innovation … can develop new markets. On the other hand, if demand and hence output does not expand in line with productivity, then an …

.=========================The ultimate goal of this paper has been to measure the impact of human capital on agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso. The … capital increases agricultural productivity of cultures such as millet, peanuts and cotton, but does not increase the … productivity of cultures such as rice, maize and white sorghum. That is partly due to the traditional way of agriculture in Burkina …

productivity it is needed to increase the level of human capital of the agrarian population. Human capital is accumulatedknowledge …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … dissertation, I model the impact on labor productivity of a change in disease susceptibility that results from intellectual …

In economics, new growth theory suggests that knowledge creation and innovation are key drivers of growth. As a result … correlated with higher productivity. Specifically, I find that higher levels of the skills math and critical thinking partially … explain higher levels of regional productivity. Science, though not statistically significant, has a negative correlation …