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International managerial skill and big Colombian exporting firms' performance, 2006-2014

Merchan Alvarez, Federico Alberto - 2022

This paper presents a novel methodology to measure international managerial skill, which has not been directly measured in the specialized management quality surveys. The international managerial quality variable captures the manager’s organizational capital contribution to improve production...

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Tracing mobile inventors : the causality between inventor mobility and inventor productivity

Hoisl, Karin - 2006

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...

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Technical progress and structural change : a long-term view

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Russo, Emanuele - 2019

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Human capital and macroeconomic growth : Austria and Germany 1960-1997; an update

Marin, Dalia; Koman, Reinhard - 2005

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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Institutional change and productivity growth in China's manufacturing 1998 - 2007 : the microeconomics of creative restructuring

Dosi, Giovanni; Lei, Jiasu; Yu, Xiaodan - 2013

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity. A major process of both...

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Scientific excellence and extramural research grants : beggars can’t be choosers?

Grimpe, Christoph - 2010

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A model of research, patenting, and productivity growth

Kortum, Samuel - 1994

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The R&D-productivity relationship in the context of new growth theories : some recent applied research

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Public-private interaction and the productivity of pharmaceutical research

Cockburn, Iain; Henderson, Rebecca - 1997

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