Sectoral cognitive skills, R&amp;D, and productivity: a cross-country cross-sector analysis

Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jo

doi:10.1080/09645292.2018.1515309

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“…This tendency lies within the framework of modern concepts of marketing and competitiveness: as competition increases, the basic functions of products become similar (all manufacturers achieve this) and they begin to compete on additional functions and benefits that can bring to them the consumer. We can see a reflection of this thesis in modern studies on skills development (Kankaraš et al, 2016;Sasso & Ritzen, 2019).…”

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The development of professionally important qualities as a result of various activities: Learning, sport, and labour market (El desarrollo de cualidades profesionales importantes como resultado de diversas actividades: Aprendizaje, deporte y mercado labo

Shmatkov¹,

Nadiia²,

Yurii³

et al. 2022

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The purpose of this article is to define evolution of opinions about the formation of the in-demand qualities (soft skills) in the Ukrainian labour market and the possibilities of their formation through sports based on the opinions of key participants in the market. The basis of the study is a survey of professionals (104 respondents), students (314 respondents), and schoolchildren (326 respondents). The coherence of the respondents' answers was checked by the Spearman rank correlation coefficient and Kendall rank correlation coefficient. The correlation, factor, and cluster analyses were used in the study methods. Factor analysis allowed us to form obtained qualities into two factors (of primary and secondary importance). Using cluster analysis, all the qualities that were identified by the respondents were divided into three uniform groups. It was also proved that the clusters differ most in terms of the qualities that were named by schoolchildren, and the clusters which are the closest in terms of the qualities were highlighted by the employers. The study was conducted within the framework of new approaches to searching the tendencies and key elements of competition on the labour markets, and it complements the work (Cachón-Zagalaz et al., 2020) by including the aspects into the analysis of schoolchildren and highlighting the distinguishing aspects that are involved in their perception of in-demand qualities. The uniqueness of the qualities that were highlighted by the students who do sport and the importance of these qualities in the formation of professional competencies have been proved. Resumen. El propósito de este artículo es definir la evolución de las opiniones sobre la formación de las cualidades más demandadas (soft skills) en el mercado laboral ucraniano y las posibilidades de su formación a través del deporte a partir de las opiniones de los principales agentes del mercado. La base del estudio es una encuesta realizada a profesionales (104 encuestados), estudiantes (314 encuestados) y escolares (326 encuestados). La coherencia de las respuestas de los encuestados se comprobó mediante el coeficiente de correlación de rangos de Spearman y el coeficiente de correlación de rangos de Kendall. En los métodos de estudio se utilizaron los análisis de correlación, de factores y de conglomerados. El análisis factorial permitió formar las cualidades obtenidas en dos factores (de importancia primaria y secundaria). Mediante el análisis de conglomerados, todas las cualidades identificadas por los encuestados se dividieron en tres grupos uniformes. También se comprobó que los clusters son los que más se diferencian en cuanto a las cualidades nombradas por los escolares, y los clusters que más se acercan en cuanto a las cualidades fueron destacados por los empresarios. El estudio se ha realizado en el marco de los nuevos enfoques de búsqueda de las tendencias y elementos clave de la competencia en los mercados de trabajo, y complementa el trabajo (Cachón-Zagalaz, et al., 2020) al incluir los aspectos en el análisis de los escolares y destacar los aspectos distintivos que intervienen en su percepción de las cualidades demandadas. Se ha comprobado la singularidad de las cualidades destacadas por los alumnos que hacen deporte y la importancia de las mismas en la formación de competencias profesionales.

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The development of professionally important qualities as a result of various activities: Learning, sport, and labour market (El desarrollo de cualidades profesionales importantes como resultado de diversas actividades: Aprendizaje, deporte y mercado labo

Shmatkov¹,

Nadiia²,

Yurii³

et al. 2022

Retos

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“…or type of innovation. Higher sectoral skills lead to higher sectoral productivity [35], as well as to higher investments in R&D [36], so the sector's characteristics, its structure and competitiveness, could influence the required mix of skills. Methodological limits in introducing sectoral and specific skills in comparative surveys also limit the possibility to identify specific skills supporting research and innovation and urge for more in-depth studies at the level of sub-sectors and occupations.…”

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Skill Needs for Early Career Researchers—A Text Mining Approach

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Research and development activities are one of the main drivers for progress, economic growth and wellbeing in many societies. This article proposes a text mining approach applied to a large amount of data extracted from job vacancies advertisements, aiming to shed light on the main skills and demands that characterize first stage research positions in Europe. Results show that data handling and processing skills are essential for early career researchers, irrespective of their research field. Also, as many analyzed first stage research positions are connected to universities, they include teaching activities to a great extent. Management of time, risks, projects, and resources plays an important part in the job requirements included in the analyzed advertisements. Such information is relevant not only for early career researchers who perform job selection taking into account the match of possessed skills with the required ones, but also for educational institutions that are responsible for skills development of the future R&D professionals.

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“…Studies that consider direct channels through which human capital affects growth suggests that individuals with more education are more productive and innovative leading to the creation of new products and improving the productivity of factors (Romer, 1989 ; Benhabib & Spiegel, 1994 ; Teixeira & Fortuna, 2011 ; Bodman & Le, 2013 ). Furthermore, Sasso & Ritzen ( 2019 ) find that human capital, in most times, explained a large amount of variation in labor productivity and economic growth when measured by skills of the workforce, whereas it appears statistically insignificant when measured by school level. Recently, Sultana et al ( 2022 ) studied the linkage between human capital and economic growth for both developing and developed countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The dummy takes the value of one (zero otherwise) when the index value is lower than the mean. The annual data covering the periods from-2019and 2019-2022 for the following eurozone countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, and Slovakia, are sourced from World Development Indicators online database. The economic variable data are downloaded from Development Indicators by the World Bank database.…”

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What Will Be the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Human Capital and Economic Growth? Evidence from Eurozone

Chaabouni

Mbarek

2023

J Knowl Econ

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This study provides new empirical evidence concerning the relationship between human capital and economic growth for 17 European countries over the periods 2015–2019 and 2019–2022. The results show that both education and health have a positive and significant impact on economic growth, and thus support higher growth. Also, our empirical results before COVID-19 show that there is bidirectional causality between economic growth and health, as well as education and economic growth, and there is unidirectional causal relationship running from education to health. After COVID-19, there is no significant causality between economic growth education and health. The results of this study may be of great importance for policy and decision makers in developing policies to foster human capital for European countries.

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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity: a cross-country cross-sector analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

The development of professionally important qualities as a result of various activities: Learning, sport, and labour market (El desarrollo de cualidades profesionales importantes como resultado de diversas actividades: Aprendizaje, deporte y mercado labo

The development of professionally important qualities as a result of various activities: Learning, sport, and labour market (El desarrollo de cualidades profesionales importantes como resultado de diversas actividades: Aprendizaje, deporte y mercado labo

Skill Needs for Early Career Researchers—A Text Mining Approach

What Will Be the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Human Capital and Economic Growth? Evidence from Eurozone

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