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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

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Technology in Growth

Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …

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Procuring Innovation

Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope …

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Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Bryan, Mark L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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Apprenticeships and Job Tenure: A Competing Risks Model with Time-varying Covariates

Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The paper examines the extent of apprenticeships in the first job for a cohort of young men entering the labour market at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is estimated. The data set used is the National Child...

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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific in foreign firms,...

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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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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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