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early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …
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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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While vocational education is meant to provide occupational-specific skills that are directly employable, their returns may be limited in fast-changing economies. Conversely, general education should provide learning skills, but these may have little value at low levels of education. This paper...
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …
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Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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international business visits. The results indicate that accessing external knowledge is a key determinant of the decision to … probability of knowledge gain, while visits to new customers and suppliers are those with the lowest. The likelihood of accessing … external knowledge is also affected by the type of employer and functional unit involved, and the characteristics of the …
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-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies … on industry of activity and geographic location.In a nutshell, results show that: (i) rather than representing a … technological revolution, the new knowledge base is strictly linked to the previous technological paradigm; (ii) the new knowledge …
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