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Closing the achievement gap in mathematics : evidence from a remedial program in Mexico City
Gutiérrez, Emilio Fernandez; Rodrigo, Rodimiro - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-30
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention targeted at marginalized low-performance students in public secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, taught by undergraduate students from some of the most prestigious Mexican...
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Education platform for more cooperation among schools
Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 158-159
The living situation of the elderly population in Europe is gaining importance due to demographic change. In many European countries, women receive substantially lower pensions than men; gender pension gaps among pensioners can be up to 69 percent. When taking elderly people without a pension...
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Endogenous or exogenous innovation development in industry on regional level?
Świadek, Arkadiusz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 9 (2013) 4, pp. 70-85
At the moment endogenous growth theory has become increasingly popular in the world of science, particularly in developed countries. This article aims to show, for two regions case, the needs and sense of applying this theory in the polish regions. Due to the low level of economic development of...
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On the optimal allocation of students when peer effects are at work: tracking vs. mixing
Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 1, pp. 31-52
The belief that both the behavior and outcomes of students are affected by their peers is important in shaping education policy. I analyze two polar education systems -tracking and mixing- and propose several criteria for their comparison. I find that tracking is the system that maximizes...
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Zooming into firms' location, capabilities and innovation performance : does agglomeration foster incremental or radical innovation?
Hervás-Oliver, José-Luis; Sempere-Ripoll, Francisca; … - In: European research on management and business economics 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-8
prone-to-innovation environments for the generation of radical innovation. By drawing on the CIS distinction between … incremental vs radical innovation, we disentangle the effect of industry specialization on the occurrence of radical innovations … innovation. Firms' internal knowledge bases do matter more for radical innovation to occur, rather than location in …
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Innovation spillovers in production networks : evidence from the establishment of national high-tech zones
Chen, Shenglan; Liu, Xiaoling - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 2 (2022) 1, pp. 42-54
expansion. Further study finds that the innovation spillover effect is stronger when the consumer company has a higher switching … consumer is closer. Our paper suggests that the innovation policy effect would be amplified through the supply chain network. …
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24
regained through more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied by more …
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Does school socio-economic status influence university outcomes?
Li, Ian W.; Dockery, Alfred Michael - In: Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of … 18 (2015) 1, pp. 75-94
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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018
The wave of digital-industrial innovation which begins to disrupt vast sectors of the global economy has fueled fear of … promote digital innovation and facilitate the adoption of skills-augmenting technologies, and strengthened private sector …
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The impact of teaching interventions in education for sustainable development : an experimental case study
Platje, Johannes Joost; Styś, Aniela; Will, Markus; … - In: Central European review of economics and management : CEREM 6 (2022) 3, pp. 69-86
Aim: Questionnaire research can be used as a teaching instrument and to measure the impacts of education for sustainable development. This paper presents a case study of a teaching intervention regarding students’ perception of operations and (supply) management fragilities, such as dependency...
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