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Intangible Assets and Intellectual Capital as Key Factors of Romania's Convergence
Suciu, Marta Cristina - 2009
competitiveness. * Study within the CEEX Programme Project No. 220/2006 Economic Convergence and Role of Knowledge in Relation to the … focussed on the role played by intangible assets and intellectual capital for attaining convergence and for increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527405
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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - 2012
Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331415
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Occupational choice, human capital, and financial constraints
Castro, Rui; Ševčík, Pavel - 2016
We study the aggregate productivity effects of firm-level financial frictions. Credit constraints affect not only production decisions but also household-level schooling decisions. In turn, entrepreneurial schooling decisions impact firm-level productivities, whose cross-sectional distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878856
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Universities' Role in Knowledge-Based Economy and Society. Implications for Romanian Economics Higher Education
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Drăgulănescu, Irina-Virginia; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 13 (2011) 30, pp. 420-436
The main objective of the article is to analyse the extent to which Romanian universities and, particularly, those in economics higher education field can face the demands of knowledge-based economy and society. The specific objectives of the work mainly consisted of: (a) reviewing the...
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Trends in the relation between regional convergence and economic growth in EU
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between regional convergence inside of countries in EU and … the correlation between the convergence process and economic growth we focused, as it is usually used in specialised … literature to analyse the real convergence, on the dynamics of GDP per capita expressed in case of EU by PPS (Purchasing Power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790043
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The role of intellectual capital in building a competitive advantage by enterprises from the transport, shipping and logistics industry (TSL)
Igielski, Michal - 2017
The modern economy is characterized by use changes. They appear very quickly and unexpectedly. This is a situation which impedes the functioning of companies and it is a challenge for the people managing them. They have to meet new challenges and adapt to changing competitive conditions, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232528
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Productivity in the euro area: any evidence of convergence?
Sondermann, David - 2012
productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605476
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Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451221
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The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador
Molina, Teresa; Rivadeneyra, Ivan - 2020
This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts differentially exposed to the policy, as well as geographic variation in access to public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322437
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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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