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9 April 2019
Cloud computing, fintech, eCommerce, and other key technologies are driving economic growth and opportunities. This presentation shares how these key technologies are helping startups, and tackles some lessons from the Silicon Valley Startup environment.
25 January 2019
Participants in this session work together to create a strategy and draw up a list of essential rules to effectively regulate private recruitment agencies.
22 August 2018
The People’s Republic of China saw steady economic momentum in the first half of 2018. Aware of potential uncertainties from domestic and international shocks, including the trade dispute with the US, the country has taken a proactive fiscal policy and measures to further open its market and…
18 May 2018
Are younger labor forces more innovative? The authors attempt to answer this question using the native-born labor force projected based on local historical births in the US. They used three successive levels of analysis to eliminate or examine effects such as firm and inventor life cycles. They…
18 May 2018
In discussing the presentation on “Demographics and Innovation” by François Derrien, the speaker noted that the paper successfully gathered various data to control for factors that appear to be correlated with age structure and innovation. She also underscored the policy implications of coping with…
17 May 2018
The author assesses the impact of an aging labor force on business dynamism, labor market fluidity, and economic growth. The analysis embeds endogenous growth through creative destruction in an equilibrium job ladder model, highlighting feedback between the extent of mismatch in the labor market…
17 May 2018
In discussing the presentation on the “Firm and Worker Dynamics in an Aging Labor Market” by Niklas Engbom, the presenter offers an alternative method to separate the direct age effect on job-to-job mobility. He also encouraged the authors to quantify the contribution of "on-the-job search" on…