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The productivity generated by capital goods is not uniform along the time. When there exist conventional physical capital goods the productivity obtained is minor that the one generated by quality capital goods. To obtain a correct measure of growth in presence of this embodied technical...
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The aim of this paper is to outline differences in the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of Estonian … on data from CV Keskus - an online employment portal bringing together jobseekers and vacant job posts. The results of …
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Theoretical as well as practical experiences of analyses confirmed that spatial processes of the diffusion of information and communication (ICT) technologies largely influenced the economy and society of the 21st century. In the last couple of years, a new motive of ICT-based inequalities...
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This study aims to discuss the economical behavior of Latin America, considering the importance of the attributes directly related to social capital (interpersonal trust, which leads to association and civic commitment, resulting in what Putnam calls 'civic community') pari passu governance, ie...
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In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data from the Industrial Scoreboard covering the period 2002-2010. We focus on R&D intensity and we assess whether the gaps relative to major competitors arise from differences in...
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The problems of digitalisation and transition of companies into the digital markets has become one of the crucial issues in contemporary business. Digital transformation is changing markets and interactions. These trends impose a question on how secure is this environment and how companies are...
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Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet...
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employment by 3.99 percentage points, whereas imports increased manufacturing employment by 2.33 percentage points. We find no … effects of trade integration with China on the employment margin. We complement our findings with results on regional wage … employed and have more (less) stable employment outcomes, defined as working in the same firm or industry. These effects of …
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out to obtain empirical evidence of the employment profile according to gender, quantify the extent to which self-employment … or salaried employment is associated with certain characteristics (age, education, marital status and economic sector … Office (INE). Results shows that significant gender differences in employment status are seen when this is disaggregated and …
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