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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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El Informe 2013 Fundación BBVA-Ivie sobre crecimiento y competitividad, analiza los retos de la recuperación de la economía española. Constata que la economía española ha salido de la recesión, pero no de la crisis. Para dejarla atrás es necesario abordar, a corto y medio plazo,...
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Although empirical evidence available suggests that information and communication technologies (ICT) have positively contributed to important sectors of the Mexican economy, it is still unknown to which extent ICT have truly contributed to productivity among these sectors. The increasing...
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Este Informe Fundación BBVA-Ivie 2012, Crecimiento y competitividad. Motores y frenos de la economía española, analiza la trayectoria de la economía española durante la crisis. Pone el acento en los condicionantes y frenos a la salida de la misma, así como en los motores de las...
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innovation leveraged off the country’s strong primary industry knowledge base. Continuing to raise skill levels and the … technologies de l’information et de la communication, ainsi qu’une innovation tirant parti de la solide base de connaissances du …
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Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...
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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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ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
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This paper analyzes the political economy of public education and redistribution in an overlapping-generation model of a two-class society in which growth is driven by the accumulation of human capital. The levels of public education and lump- sum financial transfers are determined by voting,...
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