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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women – the years spanning the...

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Voting with your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labour Laws

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child-labour regulation, based on two key mechanisms. First, parental decisions on family size interact with their preferences for child-labour regulation. Second, the supply of child labour affects skilled and unskilled wages. If policies are...

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N; van Rens, Thijs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return to education) have been hard to reconcile with micro-evidence on the private return. We present a simple explanation that combines two ideas: imperfect substitution between worker types and endogenous skill-biased technological...

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Does Poaching Distort Training?

Moen, Espen R; Rosén, Åsa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We analyse the efficiency of the labour market outcome in a competitive search equilibrium model with endogenous turnover and endogenous general human capital formation. We show that search frictions do not distort training decisions if firms and their employees are able to coordinate...

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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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Venture Capital and Knowledge Transfer

Dessí, Roberta; Yin, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

communicate valuable knowledge to an entrepreneur, facilitating innovation. The venture capitalist can also communicate the …This paper explores a new role for venture capitalists, as knowledge intermediaries. A venture capital investor can … entrepreneur's innovative knowledge to other portfolio companies. We study the costs and benefits of these two forms of knowledge …

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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

“cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

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The evolution of markets and the revolution of industry: A unified theory of growth

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen L. - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2009

expansion in the market, sow the seeds for process innovation and an economy’s take-off. We demonstrate this mechanism in a …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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Product Market Reform and Innovation in the EU

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors. In our analysis we … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. …

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