of education in economic growth among the developed economies with the conclusions derived through more detailed analyses … proposals. These would reform tax treatment of education and training investments by residents and immigrants alike; subsidise …

This paper contributes to the debate on the importance of education for sustainable economic growth. Following a recent … contribution by Aghion (2009), we focus on the role of tertiary education in innovation at the company level using patent … applications as a proxy. Rather than examining tertiary education spending or the share of the population with tertiary education …

How does the rate at which firms adopt new technologies affect the level of education and training of a country … would be the optimum level of education spending in front of a faster arrival of new technologies? This paper tries to … answer these questions by developing an endogenous growth model with creative 'wear and tear' in which general education …

Yetkiner (2003). Using a relatively broad concept of human capital that includes not only formal education but also on … be able to adopt and adapt to new technologies. The second one is the impact of both formal education and on … education enhances R&D activities and lowers adjustment costs to new technologies, thus facilitating their adoption, while on …

the frequently obtained conclusion that investments in higher education are too low are doubtful. The tests also show the … importance of further education and training, especially on-the-job training. …

of education in economic growth among the developed economies with the conclusions derived through more detailed analyses … proposals. These would reform tax treatment of education and training investments by residents and immigrants alike; subsidise …

unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced … data linked with administrative data, we show that numeracy skills are strongly related to unemployment duration, while at … longer unemployment duration of workers below median age (33) in our sample, even after including a rich set of controls. We …

new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … unemployment duration. We found that education reduces the duration of unemployment in general. However, the effect is higher for …-Saharan African countries (SSAs), particularly Ghana. The weakness in the link between education and the needed skill by the industry …