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: skills and management practices. Both areas are key requirements to achieve robust productivity growth, in which Greece has … been shown to be chronically lagging behind its peers. First, we provide an in-depth look at skills indicators to identify … aggregated from microdata sourced from the recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills that was conducted as part of the Programme for the …
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and … respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two different skills (technological and systemic skills) and we are able to … show that it is not only the absolute skill level but also the aggregate distribution of different skills that drives …
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argue that developing complementary technologies and skills must feature prominently in the next wave of low-carbon energy … renewables, and human capital, to develop the skills workers need for a low-carbon economy. We document recent trends in energy … informs policy and research on the worker skills needed for the energy transition. …
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We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...
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This paper presents targeted government policies for promoting training in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to increase their contributions to economic development. It first discusses the role of SMEs in country development and the special challenges facing SMEs in developing human...
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and … respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two different skills (technological and systemic skills) and we are able to … show that it is not only the absolute skill level but also the aggregate distribution of different skills that drives …
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We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138288
high number of poorly qualified long-term unemployed, skills mismatches and a high school drop-out rate, and insufficient …
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The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the gap between the existing literature on competences on...
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