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Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Lorenz, Edward H.; Potter, Jonathan - 2019

This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or …, knowledge exchange with employees and supervisors, on-the-job training, and employee performance incentives. They account for …

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Improving the economic situation of young people in France

Boulhol, Hervé - 2013

The economic situation of young people is unsatisfactory. Educational inequalities have been widening for over a decade, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age bracket has not dropped below 16% for nearly 30 years....

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Do the average level and dispersion of socio-economic background measures explain France's gap in PISA scores?

Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - 2013

OECD’s PISA publications highlight the impact of economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) on students’ results within countries. The focus here is to investigate whether ESCS measures could contribute to differences in aggregate educational outcomes between countries. There is some...

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Vocational training and adult learning for better skills in France

Brandt, Nicola - 2015

France devotes a great deal of resources to vocational training for youths and especially adults, but the system is unduly complex and yields rather poor returns. The basic literacy and numeracy skills of many French adults remain weak in international comparison, with harmful effects on...

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France : promoting economic opportunities and well-being in poor neighbourhoods

Brandt, Nicola - 2018

Thanks to a highly developed welfare state, poverty is moderate on average in France, but – as in other countries – highly concentrated in some neighbourhoods. Their residents face many social disadvantages, including high unemployment and inactivity, schools with many struggling children,...

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Networks of innovation : towards new models for managing schools and systems

2003

: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …

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Spurring growth in lagging regions in Slovak Republic

Demmou, Lilas; Haluš, Martin; Machlica, Gabriel; … - 2015

convergence requires a multi-pronged approach involving innovation, labour market and educational policies. Completing the …

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Digital dividend : policies to harness the productivity potential of digital technologies

Sorbe, Stéphane; Gál, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2019

This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and their productivity benefits. Increasing access...

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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers

Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018

Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...

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Boosting productivity in Finland

André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016

firms, making the tax system more growth-friendly, and supporting innovation, basic research and young firms’ financing …

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