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The impact of class absenteeism on undergraduates’ academic performance: evidence from an elite Economics school in Portugal
Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842595
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Human capital, trade and long-run productivity. Testing the technological absorption hypothesis for the Portuguese economy, 1960-2001
Teixeira, Aurora A.C.; Fortuna, Natércia - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
technological innovation, and to adopt and to implement efficiently technology from abroad. However, the role of human capital as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059453
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Human Capital, Innovation Capability and Economic Growth
Teixeira, Aurora; Fortuna, Natércia - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2003
In this paper, we study human capital effects on economic growth of Portugal from 1960 to 2001. By using VAR and … cointegration analyses, we obtain 0.42 long-run estimate for human capital elasticity, 0.30 long-run estimate for internal knowledge … between human capital and innovation capability. These estimates seem to confirm that human capital and indigenous innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059562
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Effects of political rivalry on public educational investments and income inequality: evidence from empirical data
Sochirca, Elena; Afonso, Óscar; Silva, Sandra - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
In this paper we intend to empirically examine how different political institutions may define the long-term economic development, determined by educational investments and income inequality. With this objective, we assess the impact of political rivalry on four selected macroeconomic variables:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895375
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The level of human capital in innovative firms located in China. Is foreign capital relevant?
Shu, Li; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
between FDI, Human Capital and Innovation at a corporate level. Based on a set of large and innovative firms (national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725676
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Entrepreneurship Dynamics: Entry Routes, Business-Owner's Persistence and Exit Modes
Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset. We identify the transition of over 200,000 nascent business-owners and follow their survival patterns in the respective businesses using discrete time competing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842579
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Serial entrepreneurship, learning by doing and self-selection
Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
It remains a question whether serial entrepreneurs typically perform better than their novice counterparts owing to learning by doing e¤ects or mostly because they are a selected sample of higher-than-average ability entrepreneurs. This paper tries to unravel these two effects by exploring a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842587
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Human Capital Intensity in Technology-Based Firms Located in Portugal: Do Foreign Multinationals Make a Difference?
Tavares, Ana Teresa; Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2005
. New evidence is provided, based on a comprehensive, large-scale survey of technology-based firms located in Portugal … development for an economy like Portugal (lagging behind in terms of human capital stock, and seeming to have lost part of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970057
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Local sustainable mobility management. Are Portuguese municipalities aware?
Monteiro, Catarina Aroso; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
yet to be dealt with appropriately and in a credible way. This shortcoming is particularly acute in Portugal where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059490
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Measuring aggregate human capital in Portugal. An update up to 2001
Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2004
an increasingly knowledge based economy and an important lever of social cohesion policy. However, existing studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059495