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"There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...
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Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …
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According to recent literature, effective knowledge management should be coherent and based on the firm’s strategy …. Prior empirical research, in contrast, tries to evaluate the impact of knowledge management initiatives directly on … performance but finds inconsistent results and not allows the understanding of knowledge management contribution to competitive …
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(innovation, organizational commitment and performance) of market orientation in industrial SMEs.This article follows a new … orientation influences innovation and innovation, in its turn, influences business performance. Moreover, market orientation and …
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Parents invest in their children’s human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
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European and German economic policy are increasingly shifting their emphasis to small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs). In 2008, the European Union adopted the Small Business Act with the goal of creating better underlying conditions for smaller businesses. The German government is also...
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This paper explored Slovenian entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics to understand the existing gender gap in transitional countries, testing the proposed model among small and medium-sized company owners (N = 201; 32.3% female, 67.7% male). The research operationalized entrepreneurs’...
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, knowledge management and control of assets, liabilities and equity, and the results obtained, the accounts must provide …
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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virtual learning networks and creativity and innovation management models, especially in higher education institutions. This … paper aims to study the ways in which creativity and innovation management models can be used in virtual learning networks …
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