We investigate co-operative innovative activity in four major European countries, France, Germany, Spain and the UK, using internationally comparable firm-level data for manufacturing and service sectors. We examine the roles of knowledge flows, cost- and risk-sharing and public financial...

We use unique workplace and employee-level data to evaluate a majorUK government pilot program to increase qualification-based, employer-providedtraining for low-qualified employees. We evaluate the program'seffect using a difference-in-differences approach. Using data on eligibleemployers and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand and explore how young children relate to brands. The paper specifically attempts to explore their favourite and everyday brands with which they interact, understand the phenomenon of intergenerational transfer of brands, and study how child...

Purpose: Do consumers rate reviews describing other consumers' sensory experience of a product (touch, smell, sight, hear and taste) as helpful or do they rate reviews describing more practical properties (product performance and characteristics/features) as more helpful? What is the effect of...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand and explain the process by which child consumers form relationships with brands. Specifically, the authors attempt to understand how child consumers conceptualize brands, why and how they decide to engage in relationships with brands and why...

[fre] D'ici à 1992, l'emploi pourrait décroître fortement dans le Nord, le Nord-Est, et le Massif central. C'est du moins ce qui ressort de la régionalisation des perspectives nationales d'emploi effectuées avec le modèle SPORE. La Lorraine et le Nord - Pas-de-Calais seraient...

[spa] Los modos de estabilización en empleo al principio de la vida activa . . En un contexto en el que las trayectorias de los jóvenes al principio de la vida activa han ido complejificándose, el análisis de los modos de estabilización en empleo muestra las vías por las que unos...