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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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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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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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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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It remains a question whether serial entrepreneurs typically perform better than their novice counterparts owing to learning by doing e¤ects or mostly because they are a selected sample of higher-than-average ability entrepreneurs. This paper tries to unravel these two effects by exploring a...
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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...
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-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
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This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We show how recent technological advances in physical and human capital can lead to the breakdown of occupational barriers, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and...
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