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How Do Education, Cognitive Skills, Cultural and Social Capital Account for Intergenerational Earnings Persistence? Evidence from the Netherlands
Büchner, Charlotte - 2015
This study analyzes four different transmission mechanisms, through which father's earnings affect son's earnings: the educational attainment, cognitive skills, the cultural capital of the family and the social capital in the neighborhood. Using a unique data set that combines panel data from a...
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Social capital and innovation - can social trust explain the technological innovation of the high-performing East Asian eonomies?
Cho, Seo-Young - 2018
low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation …. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that the role of social capital in innovation is different in East Asia …-based incentives are the most essential driving-force of innovation in the East Asian countries, whereas social trust does not play a …
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Innovation and social capital : across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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Influence of knowledge networking, knowledge base, and knowledge strategy on innovation capability
Hung, Hsin-Min - In: International journal of business and systems research 9 (2015) 2, pp. 138-153
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Overcoming undesirable knowledge redundancy in territorial clusters
Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Expósito-Langa, Manuel - In: Industry and innovation 20 (2013) 8, pp. 739-758
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Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - 1994
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Do information and communication technologies empower female workers? Firm-level evidence from Viet Nam
Chun, Natalie; Tang, Heiwai - 2018
This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadband Internet sector across provinces from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to...
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Educate or adjudicate? : socio-economic heterogeneity and welfare
Neyaptı, Bilin - 2015
This paper presents a model to explore the welfare effects of the government’s choice over two types of public goods provision: domestic regulatory and security spending (adjudication) versus education. Output is a function of physical and social capital, both of which can be heterogeneous...
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The More Educated, the More Engaged? An Analysis of Social Capital and Education
Ferrer-Esteban, Gerard - 2017
Social capital can be understood as network-based civic engagement, based on reciprocity and trust. This sociological approach, however, is faced with problems when assuming network-based social capital as a stock of capital. Any form of capital should have a positive economic payoff, should be...
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The Role of Social Capital in Competition and Gender-Matching Environments - Evidence from East Asian Countries
Cho, Seo-Young - 2018
This paper investigates the role of social trust in determining one's willingness to compete in math competitions in school, observing how competitive occupational choices often require higher quantitative skills. Using the data of the PISA test in math, the empirical results highlight that a...
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