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Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These stylized facts have led to numerous studies about the main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a...
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Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … comparable small European economies. Further shifting the orientation of the economy to the external sector is vital for Portugal … to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …
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Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming … determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement … some of the best known scholars in the field of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation investigate whether the …
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Based on the case study of Portugal, the present study aims to analyse the alignment of investments in the Portuguese …, and Innovation and/or to improve the regional innovation ecosystems. The analysis shows that up to €6 Billion of the Plan … (37%) may potentially support directly and indirectly the Smart Specialisation in Portugal. However, the effect of such …
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: 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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