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"There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...
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Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …
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According to recent literature, effective knowledge management should be coherent and based on the firm’s strategy …. Prior empirical research, in contrast, tries to evaluate the impact of knowledge management initiatives directly on … performance but finds inconsistent results and not allows the understanding of knowledge management contribution to competitive …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between technological competencies (TC) and firm performance. Theoretically, the importance of TC is well established and widely accepted. Therefore, it is surprising that a number of empirical studies have been unable to confirm a substantial positive...
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Innovation and its uptake are two key ingredients in the Australian wine industry’s rapid rise from cottage industry … adoption of both product and process innovation. This leadership continues to underpin its competitive advantage in oenological … access to the industry’s dominant knowledge cluster by the myriad regional firms. The intensity of this cluster and …
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(innovation, organizational commitment and performance) of market orientation in industrial SMEs.This article follows a new … orientation influences innovation and innovation, in its turn, influences business performance. Moreover, market orientation and …
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The core of issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers is farmer problem, and the key to farmer problem is the problem of farmers' overall quality. Farmers' cultural quality, technical level and ideological and moral standards, directly determine the success of countryside...
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The education and training are important methods to improve the quality of migrant workers and the key to solve the issues concerning agriculture, farmer and rural area. Based on theoretical and literature analysis, this paper analyzed economic problems in the education and training of migrant...
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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