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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain
McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019
barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
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Intergenerational educational mobility - the role of non-cognitive skills
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2021
While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential 'first in family' or first-generation students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the...
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Intergenerational educational mobility : the role of noncognitive skills
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2021
While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential ‘first in family’ or firstgeneration students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886556
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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in...
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Job Mobility and Sorting : Theory and Evidence
Stijepic, Damir - 2018
Motivated by the canonical (random) on-the-job search model, I measure a person’s ability to sort into preferred jobs by the risk ratio of job-to-job transitions to transitions into unemployment. I show that this measure possesses various desirable features. Making use of the Survey of Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134217
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Demand-driven training and job turnover : the effects of Brazil's Pronate-MDIC at firm and worker level
Quintana, Rodrigo E.; Cravo, Túlio - 2019
This paper explores for the first time the impact of a demand-driven training program on labor turnover at both firm and worker level. Launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC in Portuguese), Pronatec-MDIC allows firms to demand courses which some of their...
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24
regained through more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied by more …
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227788
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Labor mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
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Innovator Mobility in Finland and Denmark
Bagger, Jesper; Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku; … - 2016
innovation are quickly matched to innovators. The mobility of innovators is also important for positive knowledge spillovers to …Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms …
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