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prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in … such an institution characterized by organizational changes and we analyse the determinants of students' e-skills using a … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students' involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …
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This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that...
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The paper investigates empirically the decision of firms to adopt Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on a comprehensive specification of a rank model of technology adoption (complemented by epidemic effects) using firm-level data for the Swiss business sector. The explanatory...
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With only a small number of their students coming from families with the lowest incomes (10% from the bottom two family … answers are (1) that low-income high-ability students are being excluded in order to favor the children of society's most … advantaged or (2) that very few low-income high-ability students exist - that by college age, low-income students have been so …
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) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining farmers’ response to incentives …
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line with their policies. In the example of Bangladesh poverty reduction is the principle concern of rural development … analysed, which is going to be implemented in a vast area of Northern Bangladesh. Through agricultural extension a short …
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accepted, scenario particularly in some developing countries. Bangladesh is one of the countries that still face the challenge … poverty. In recent years Bangladesh has taken various measures, including legal measures, to address the situation. This paper … reviews reports on the child labour situation in Bangladesh and the current legal framework for child labour and demonstrates …
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the time scale of FDI to Bangladesh over the period 1975- 2006 and major factors determining foreign companies' decisions … policy framework makes Bangladesh as an attractivedestination of FDI, that has a positive spillover and significant impacts …
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This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
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Over the course of the last decade, Bangladesh has implemented a broad-based program of financial and market reforms … paper estimates a savings function to evaluate the impact of various determinants of private savings in Bangladesh …
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