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Sustainable development in Southern Europe : spatial analysis of regional challenges

Vaz, Eric de Noronha; Noronha, Teresa de - 2020

perspective concerning planning, regional development, the role of innovation and sustainability of cities. It offers as such an … antiquity been a cradle of invention, innovation, and regional development, that under adequate and visionary governance may …

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Networks of innovation : towards new models for managing schools and systems

2003

: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …

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Employer provided training in Europe : determinants and obstacles

Brunello, Giorgio; Wruuck, Patricia - 2020

This report looks at employer - provided training in Europe. We start with a brief outline of the economic theory of training. We then look at the recent facts, by combining data from two employer surveys, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS) and Eurostat's Continuous...

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Ageing and productivity growth in OECD regions : combatting the economic impact of ageing through productivity growth?

Daniele, Federica; Honiden, Taku; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2019

OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth required to maintain per capita GDP levels constant...

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Trends in economic inactivity across the OECD : the importance of the local dimension and a spotlight on the United Kingdom

Barr, Jonathan; Magrini, Elena; Meghnagi, Michela - 2019

As unemployment rates have reached historical lows across many OECD countries, it is important to focus on the economically inactive – that is people who are neither in a job nor seeking work. This paper reviews recent trends in economic inactivity across the OECD, focusing on places and...

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Job quality, health and productivity : an evidence-based framework for analysis

Saint-Martin, Anne; Inanc, Hande; Prinz, Christopher - 2018

The nature, content and milieu of work – i.e. the quality of the working environment – matter in many ways for people, firms and society as a whole. There is a great deal of evidence to show clear associations between job quality and the health of workers, their ability to successfully...

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Productivity and wage effects of firm-level collective agreements : evidence from Belgian linked panel data

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, François; Terraz, Isabelle - 2019

How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and labour productivity (with respect to sector-level agreements)....

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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform

Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019

This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The...

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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers

Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018

Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...

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Employment of ICT specialists in the EU (2000-2012)

Sabadash, Anna - 2014

This study examines the evolution of the number of ICT-skilled workers employed in industry sectors in the EU28 over the period 2000-2012. Data are taken from the Eurostat Labour Force Statistics. It introduces a novel definition of ICT specialists that combines occupations and skills...

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