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Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …
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Even though innovation subsidies and financial constraints are two closely related lines of research, the link between … them is rather unexplored. This paper is, to our knowledge, the first to explicitly analyse both the allocation of … innovation subsidies and their role in alleviating firms’ financial constraints. It is not the purpose of the paper to question …
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This paper broadly addresses the financing problems of the innovation process, by analysing the extent to which … financial constraints hinder firms' investment in R&D and innovation, as well as investigating the role of public financial … perverse effect upon R&D investment and innovation, there is no evidence that subsidies mitigate such constraints. Accordingly …
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convergence period during which growth in the Portuguese economy accelerated and Portugal grew faster than the EU14 average; and a …, with Portugal falling behind relative to the EU14 in recent years as far as the former are concerned. In order to better … empirical model where innovation and imitation provide two potential sources of productivity growth for countries behind the …
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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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between FDI, Human Capital and Innovation at a corporate level. Based on a set of large and innovative firms (national and …
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In this study, we develop an alternative modelling that examines a) the determinants of firm productivity and wages and b) the internal rate of return (IRR) to firm training for both firms and workers. Using a six-year linked employer-employee dataset, our estimates indicate that an additional...
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth all result from individual decisions. Parents face a...
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This paper derives a model in which workers have firm-specific and industry-specific skills, and in each period there is a non-zero probability that a worker quits. This makes the private discount factor, used by firms in making decisions about hiring and training new workers and firing existing...
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