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Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...

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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...

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Improving Education Outcomes in the Slovak Republic

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education...

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Improving Education Outcomes in Germany

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly...

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Improving Education Achievement and Attainment in Luxembourg

Carey, David; Ernst, Ekkehard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing residents. employment prospects in the private sector, where employers mainly hire cross-border workers. Student achievement in Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the...

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Innovation and Market Value

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1999

Recent research on financial market valuation of the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms is surveyed. The … motivation for using a market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is … value of the modern manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that patent measures contain …

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The Value of Patents as Indicators of Inventive Activity

Griliches, Zvi - 1986

This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change. It describes our firm level data set construction effort; reports on the relationship between RLD expenditures and the level of patenting; analyzes the relationship between...

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Tax Policy for Innovation

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2019

A large number of countries around the world now provide some kind of tax incentive to encourage firms to undertake innovative activity. This paper presents the policy rationale for these incentives, discusses their design and potential effectiveness, and reviews the empirical evidence on their...

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Patents, Innovation, and Development

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then …-related technologies. We conclude that the "double externality" problem, that is the presence of both environmental and knowledge …

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