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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...
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The Evolution of Modern Educational Systems: Technical Vs. General Education, Distributional Conflict and Growth
Bertocchi, Graziella; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We study the evolution of an educational system which is founded on a hierarchical differentiation between technical and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general...
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
proportion of knowledge workers in employment, depending on the response of the overall demand for knowledge to the implied … reduction in the cost of acquiring it. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of … knowledge input in the production of human capital. An improvement in IT is modelled as an increase in the number of people who …
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New Product Announcements as Market Signals. A content analysis in the DRAM chip industry
Popma, W.T.; Waarts, E.; Wierenga, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2003
New-product announcements (NPAs) have considerable effects on competitors in industrial markets. Several studies have shown that the perceived threat caused by an NPA may trigger severe competitive reactions. Yet it is still unclear how the perception of threat by competitors is related to the...
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Competition:an inspirational marketing tool
Waarts, E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004
Concurrentie is de motor achter innovatie en dynamiek in markten.Sectoren zoals het openbaar vervoer, water, energie, en telecom worden niet voor niets door nationale en internationale overheden geliberaliseerd en gedereguleerd. Het doel is markten te creëren met eerlijke kansen voor nieuwe...
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Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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