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Manufacturing Equality : Title IX, Proportionality, and Natural Demand

Emam, Daniel - 2020

This paper poses the following question in the context of civil rights in education — is proportionality synonymous with parity? Since 1974 the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has determined that in order for an educational institution to be in compliance with Title IX of the Educational...

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Innovation and the evolution of industries

Malerba, Franco - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2005

The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas …. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have greater advanced our understanding of innovation … are required for a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and the evolution of industries: the …

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The Impact of Market Size and Users' Sophistication on Innovation : The Patterns of Demand and the Technology Life Cycle

Guerzoni, Marco - 2014

on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …

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Calorie demand and labour productivity in Peru: evidence from the National Household Survey 1998 - 2002

Lavado, Pablo; Gallegos, José - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2005

Is the extreme poverty line a good measure of food insecurity and nutritional status? It is said that an individual who is above the extreme poverty line has enough resources to achieve a basic food basket. In Peru, extreme poverty has increased 7.5% between 1998 and 2002; however, daily calorie...

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Educational qualifications mismatch in Europe Is it demand or supply driven?

Ghignoni, Emanuela; Verashchagina, Alina - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2012

Most papers dealing with individual overeducation risks focus on labour supply characteristics and workers behaviour. On the other hand, only few studies consider labour demand characteristics and technological change. In this paper we analyse the influence of both demand and supply factors on...

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Educational qualifications mismatch in Europe. Is it demand or supply driven?

Ghignoni, Emanuela; Verashchagina, Alina - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 670-692

Most papers dealing with individual overeducation risks focus on labour supply characteristics and workers’ behaviour. On the other hand, only few studies consider labour demand characteristics and technological change. In this paper we analyse the influence of both demand and supply factors...

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The Irish Economic Boom: What Can We Learn?

Fortin, Pierre - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 19-31

The economic success story of the 1990s has been Ireland, with GDP per capita nearly doubling over the decade. In this article Pierre Fortin from the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research provides a detailed examination of the factors behind the...

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The demand for teacher characteristics in the market for child care : evidence from a field experiment

Boyd-Swan, Casey; Herbst, Chris M. - 2017

Many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend center-based child care programs that are of low quality. This paper examines the extent to which teacher qualifications – widely considered important inputs to classroom quality - are valued by providers during the hiring process. To do so, we...

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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2019

I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise...

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Who's minding the kids? : experimental evidence on the demand for child care quality

Gordon, James; Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2018

Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving the quality of child care is increasingly an explicit goal of government policy. However, accomplishing this goal requires a thorough...

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