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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors - their gender - affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth...
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productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same time, equality of opportunity for participation in higher education … in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
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regained through more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied by more …
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employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
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intergenerational mobility and innovation, and find robust evidence that higher mobility is associated with increased innovation. …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …
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The purpose of this research article was to explore the influence of knowledge and skills of human resource on the … the significant effect of human knowledge and skills partially or not, whereas F test was applied to test whether the … effect will be simultaneous. Results showed that knowledge and skills of human resources have significant and simultaneous …
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/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
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new knowledge. We employ a panel of 20 European countries and we study the impact of the share of foreigners in the … skilled labor force on two measures of innovation, namely the number of patents and the number of citations of scientific … innovation. What underlined hypotheses may drive such result? First, skilled foreigners contribute to enlarge the size of the …
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European countries (Germany, Belgium and Portugal): shopfloor and production lines, design and management and the local inter …
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