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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school). Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Asymmetries and economic interaction between Israel and Palestine
Vaggi, Gianni; Baroud, Sara - 2005
and between the two economies involved. Palestine is currently afflicted with economic stagnation and structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326086
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Compensation and the Abandoned Property of the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessment and Implications
Lewisf, Frank D - 2006
This paper extends the analysis of "Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessing the Loss" (Lewis 1996) to non-agricultural property. The estimate is based mainly on the area of urban property abandoned by refugees, where valuations are based on contemporary transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940731
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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?
Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - 2011
This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277393
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Economic adversity and entrepreneurship-led growth: Lessons from the Indian software sector
Athreye, Suma - 2010
It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied these predictions. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280184
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Cutting too close? Design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280833
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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2011
For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281669
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283985
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Distribution of intellectual property rights and the development of technology suppliers
Paija, Laura - 2003
The importance of customer relationships as a source of suppliers’ innovative activity and competence accumulation has been widely recognised. The more a relationship involves collaboration and creative, non-standardised customer solutions, the more there is potential for the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284904