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When Vietnam joined the WTO, it accepted foreign direct investment and started to grow. Technically, it was then greatly influenced by the enterprises that entered the country through direct investment. This report shows that the technology network for machine tools is formed via direct...
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for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …
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From the perspective of the Chicago school, there is no behaviour that is not interpretable as economic. In this paper, we discuss the assertion in the perspective of an optimal constitution and exploitation of Human Capital, through our conceptual framework named Emotional Capital (EC)....
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labour productivity growth in Canada advancing at around a 2 per cent average annual rate in the medium term. This view is … based on the increased share of machinery and equipment investment in GDP, Canada's high degree of exposure to international …
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This paper assesses Estonia’s flexibility from two angles. The paper focuses on one aspect of that performance—the ability to sustain competitiveness. Then, a more forward-looking angle is the flexibility of Estonia’s labor and product markets. Estonia has made great...
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Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and rapid technological progress. At the same time, the...
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importance of general skills over firm-specific skills and the growing share of externally recruited CEOs. I also discuss … then review the three main explanations that have been put forward to explain the surge in CEO compensation over the past …
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change the skills of the workforce and improve the microeconomic incentives facing workers and employers. Two supply …
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This paper studies the influence of supply-side and demand-side factors on the compensation of information technology … doubt on the belief that IT skills have a large firm-specific component. Although IT experience is valued more than non … research, for firms' compensation practices, and for individual IT professionals. …
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