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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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In search of excellence - Innovation contests to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Portugal
Carvalho, Adão - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2009
businesses; an increasing trend in the number of innovation contests launched annually in Portugal; high rates of rotation of the …Numerous initiatives of different nature have taken place in Portugal over the recent years aiming at raising … consciousness of the importance and advantages of innovation and entrepreneurship, persuading businesspeople to place innovation as …
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Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data
Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...
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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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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666520
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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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Practice Makes Perfect: On Professional Standards
Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Professional standards vary across professions and also change over time. One profession which has remained perfectionist is classical music, where the amount of practising is striking compared with other professions. Practising is a matter of increasing the reliability of ones skills rather...
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Do Markets Favour Women's Human Capital More Than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666953