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Improving the Performance of Ethiopian Universities in Science and Technology : A Policy Note
Salmi, Jamil - 2017
The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has demonstrated commitment to expand higher education science and technology (S and T) programs to spur and support its growth and transformation agenda. Ethiopia has made a tremendous advance in access to higher education over the past decade. This rapid...
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The Political Economy of Inequality in Rich Democracies
Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2019
and tax-based sources. Greater exposure to innovation and trade does not predict higher inequality in levels of changes …
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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
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Bridging the digital divide in the G20 : skills for the new age
Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2017
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/10011724528
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Bridging the digital divide in the G20 : skills for the new age
Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2018
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
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Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297625
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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Hirability and Educational Prestige
Vandivier, John - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229629
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The decision to become an entrepreneur and the firm size distribution : a unifying framework for policy analysis
Poschke, Markus - 2013
Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221558
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The State of Research and Innovation Sphere in Russia in 2009
Dezhina, Irina - 2013
In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …
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