Blar i 4 - Academic Publications / Vitenskapelige publikasjoner på forfatter "Børing, Pål"
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Bringing home the bacon: the relationship between firm characteristics and participation in EU Horizon 2020 projects
Børing, Pål; Fevolden, Arne Martin; Mark, Michael Spjelkavik; Piro, Fredrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Why some countries are more successful than others at securing European research and innovation grants is a question that has recently received significant attention in the research and policy communities. This article ... -
Country differences in numeracy skills: how do they vary by job characteristics and education levels?
Støren, Liv Anne; Lundetræ, Kjersti; Børing, Pål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)To what extent do favourable job characteristics contribute to the variation in numeracy skills between countries? Based on theory of maintenance and further development of pre-existing skills, this is explored by applying ... -
Do older employees have a lower individual productivity potential than younger employees?
Børing, Pål; Grøgaard, Jens Brandi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We examine the relationship between employees’ age and their individual productivity potential (IPP). IPP is measured by individual characteristics which are related to skills utilisation at work. Using PIAAC data for 27 ... -
Do older employees have a lower individual productivity potential than younger employees?
Børing, Pål; Grøgaard, Jens Brandi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We examine the relationship between employees’ age and their individual productivity potential (IPP). IPP is measured by individual characteristics which are related to skills utilisation at work. Using PIAAC data for 27 ... -
Effect of firms' age on their use of highly skilled workers
Børing, Pål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We aim to contribute to the literature on entrepreneurship by examining the relationship between firms’ age and their use of highly skilled workers, measured by employees with higher education. A panel data set of Norwegian ... -
Immigrants’ participation in non-formal job-related training
Støren, Liv Anne; Børing, Pål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-14)Participation in job-related training among immigrants is becoming more important in Europe in view of large immigration inflows. This paper considers differences in training participation rates by immigrant background ... -
International mobility: Findings from a survey of researchers in the EU
Børing, Pål; Flanagan, Kieron; Gagliardi, Dimitri; Kaloudis, Aris; Karakasidou, Aikaterini (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)International mobility of researchers is increasingly constructed both as a science policy problem to be solved and as a goal to be pursued. Yet evidence on the experience of mobility and the factors associated with ... -
Is a firm's productivity level affected by its number and types of innovation cooperation partners?
Børing, Pål; Mark, Michael Spjelkavik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We first examine the effect of having innovation cooperation arrangements on the productivity level among firms with innovation activities. Then, we examine whether a firm’s productivity level is affected by its number and ... -
Public R&D support to enterprises in four R&D sectors: the mix of types of aid and policy agencies
Børing, Pål; Mark, Michael Spjelkavik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We examine how the amount of public R&D support to enterprises in different R&D sectors is related to the mix of types of aid and policy agencies. The question we ask is whether this amount increases or decreases with the ... -
The relationship between firm productivity, wage level and employees’ age: A sectoral perspective
Børing, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We examine how a firm’s productivity level, wage level and productivity–wage gap are related to the age composition of its employees. Panel data of Norwegian firms in the following three sectors are used: the manufacturing ... -
Skills for the future – forecasting firm competitiveness using machine learning methods and employer-employee register data
Børing, Pål; Fevolden, Arne Martin; Lynum, André (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article investigates whether skills data can be used to forecast firm competitiveness. It makes use of an employer-employee register dataset consisting of detailed information about the educational background of all ... -
The relationship between firm productivity, firm size and CSR objectives for innovations
Børing, Pål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-16)We examine how a firm’s productivity level is related to its potential corporate social responsibility (CSR) objectives for innovations, and whether this relationship is affected by firm size. Two CSR objectives for ... -
The relationship between training and innovation activities in enterprises
Børing, Pål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We examine the relationship between enterprises’ use of employee training (or education) as a method to stimulate new ideas or creativity among their staff and enterprises’ innovation activities. A data set of 5204 Norwegian ... -
Training of various durations: Do we find the same social predictors as for training participation rates
Støren, Liv Anne; Børing, Pål (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Most studies on participation in training focus on participation versus non-participation. The individual’s participation varies, however, very much in terms of the duration of training, from until a few days to intensive ... -
University characteristics and probabilities for funding of proposals in the European Framework Programs
Piro, Fredrik Niclas; Børing, Pål; Scordato, Lisa; Aksnes, Dag W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Previous studies have pointed at participation in the European Framework Programs for Research and Innovation as elite driven, foremost by large and prestigious universities. By analyzing all proposals (including rejected ...