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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019

Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...

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Regional development in Lithuania : a tale of two economies

Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Tusz, Roland - 2020

Regional differences in GDP per capita, productivity, employment and poverty in Lithuania are among the largest in the OECD, and they have increased over the last decade. The country still recovers from the legacy of the Soviet planning system which aimed at balanced geographical distribution of...

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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

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Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2020

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across population groups with the elderly, people with...

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Enhancing SME productivity : policy highlights on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages

Marchese, Marco; Giuliani, Elisa; Salazar-Elena, Juan Carlos - 2019

Based on an extensive review of the academic and policy literature, this paper focuses on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents estimates on productivity gaps by firm size to...

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Boosting skills for all in the Netherlands

Kierzenkowski, Rafał; Paciorek, Aleksandra; Fulop, Gabor - 2016

Strong and adequate skills are essential to support workers’ productivity and to ensure robust employment outcomes. Developing workers’ skills would also increase their personal satisfaction and wages, contributing in making growth more inclusive. The Netherlands performs well in terms of...

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Educational outcomes : a literature review of policy drivers from a macroeconomic perspective

Smidova, Zuzana - 2019

This paper reviews recent empirical literature on policy drivers of two educational outcomes - years of schooling and rates of return - that form the OECD’s aggregate measure of human capital. The paper sets the literature findings into the context of current educational polices in place in...

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Reducing skills imbalances to foster productivity growth of Malaysia

Espinoza, Ricardo; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019

To enjoy the same success in the future as in the past, Malaysia will need to ensure that more people develop the right skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students and adults in developing critical skills and...

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Long-run economic, budgetary and fiscal effects of Roma integration policies

Ciaian, Pavel; Ivanov, Andrej; Kancs, D'Artis - 2018

Although, the need for an efficient Roma integration policy is growing in Europe, surprisingly little robust scientific evidence regarding potential policy costs and expected benefits of alternative policy options has supported the policy design and implementation so far. The present study...

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