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How Skills Can Drive Competitiveness

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  • Arpaia Alfonso

    (European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.)

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  • Arpaia Alfonso, 2025. "How Skills Can Drive Competitiveness," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Sciendo, vol. 60(1), pages 18-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:intere:v:60:y:2025:i:1:p:18-27:n:1005
    DOI: 10.2478/ie-2025-0005
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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