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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe

Colombelli, A.; Foddi, M.; Paci, R. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2011

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Knowledge assets and regional performance

Paci, R.; Marrocu, E. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

adequate endowment of knowledge assets at the local level, like technological and human capital. These intangible factors … territory to absorb the potential knowledge spillovers from the neighbouring regions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the … addition to the traditional inputs of physical capital and units of labour, we consider innovation activities and human capital …

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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Regional development and creativity

Marrocu, E.; Paci, R. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...

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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work – the move from occupational specialization towards multi-tasking – for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...

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Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality

Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....

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Training and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our research design is very similar to studies for various other countries, we find very different...

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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

Beirne, John; Campos, Nauro F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...

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