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Bridging the digital divide in the G20 : skills for the new age
Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2018
The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...
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Decomposing international gender test score differences
Munir, Farzana; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 12, pp. 1-17
In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls’ disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the distribution of talents. Our decomposition shows that...
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Gender gaps in education : the long view
Evans, David K.; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in...
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Does early educational tracking contribute to gender gaps in test achievement? : a cross-country assessment
Lorenz, Theresa; Schneebaum, Alyssa - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 5-36
On average, boys score higher on math achievement tests and girls score higher in reading; these gaps increase between primary and secondary school. Using PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS data, we investigate the role of early educational tracking (sorting students into different types of secondary...
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Special issue : Papers from ICEA After the Pandemic Conference Series, fall 2021
Konieczny, Jerzy D. - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 177-182
Papers in the special issue were presented at five conferences in the After the Pandemic Conference Series, organized by the International Centre for Economic Analysis (ICEA), for which the Review is the official journal, and held online between October 29, 2021 and December 10, 2021. The list...
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National innovation capacity and economic progress of countries
Cvetanović, Slobodan; Andrejević Panić, Andrea; … - In: Ekonomske teme 59 (2021) 3, pp. 297-314
goods represents its national innovation capacity, which is at the same time a key determinant of countries' economic … postulates on which this concept is based, as well as calculating the Innovation capacity index by which it is possible to … predict progress in building innovation capacity of individual countries and mutual comparison with other countries according …
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Research of the development of the electronic industry and economy on the example of Ukraine
Shyshkovskyi, Serhii; Semkiv, Ihor; Kashuba, Andrii - In: Technology audit and production reserves 5 (2022) 4/67, pp. 22-25
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The influence of socio-cultural factors on knowledge-based innovation and the digital economy
Vlasov, Maksim; Polbitsyn, Sergey N.; Olumekor, Michael; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 8 (2022) 4, pp. 1-13
The knowledge economy, fostered by knowledge-based innovation, has been linked to entrepreneurial and economic success …. We investigated the impact of socio-cultural factors on knowledge-based innovation, then we also examined whether … digitalization impacted knowledge-based innovation, regardless of the influence of socio-cultural factors. Using official data from …
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Creating innovation capabilities for improving global health : inventing technology for neglected tropical diseases in Brazil
Perez-Aleman, Paola; Ferretti, Tommaso - In: Journal of International Business Policy : JIBP 6 (2023) 1, pp. 84-114
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global changes in production, distribution and legitimization of scientific knowledge : consequences for Brazil
Neves, Fabrício; Hitner, Verena - In: Revista tempo do mundo (2022) 28, pp. 133-150
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