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and tax-based sources. Greater exposure to innovation and trade does not predict higher inequality in levels of changes …
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The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...
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The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824149
What are the links between climate change, epidemics and socioeconomic inequality? While recent epidemics have focused attention on the effects of epidemics on economic outcomes, and a separate literature in climate science and environmental health has linked global environmental change to...
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Alternative credentials offer a partial solution to the skill gap and student debt crises, supernormal returns for some students, and a tool to support diversity hiring for firms. This paper tests the hypothesis that educational prestige explains hirability better than accreditation. An original...
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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negative impact on knowledge capital. These findings suggest that without appropriate policy responses, BC makes developing …
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Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are intermediary firms which specialise in knowledge screening, assessment … perceived by many as the natural by-product of modern knowledge economies within which increasing specialisation induces the … need for professional agents in the markets for external knowledge. This paper addresses critically a conceptual flaw in …
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This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic … global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge services. Based on prior research on clusters and services offshoring … commoditization of knowledge work on KSC growth: It is proposed that KSCs attract most projects if service commoditization is medium …
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