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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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knowledge-based economy approaches. It identifies a range of policies and initiatives that these economies need to consider to … strengthen innovation led growth and make a transition from middle income to high income levels. …
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This study outlines policy actions required in developing countries of Asia to advance as knowledge-based economies …. The study uses the four pillars of the Knowledge Economy Index to benchmark the performance of developing economies in …
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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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Questo lavoro si propone di studiare lo sviluppo economico e tecnologico del distretto di Lumezzane, riconosciuto come archetipo del modello distrettuale italiano dalla letteratura distrettualista, che attraversa una fasi di profonda trasformazione. Tale trasformazione ha condotto, sia le...
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Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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Are home computers are an important input in the educational production function? To address this question, we conduct a field experiment involving the provision of free computers to schoolchildren for home use. Low-income children attending middle and high schools in 15 schools in California...
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A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover 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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development). The paper present epistemological introduction to theory of innovation. …
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