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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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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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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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Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The crucial ingredient in our model is that the current employer has superior information about the worker’s ability relative to other firms. This informational advantage gives the...

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Employment Protection, International Specialization, and Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on incentives for R&D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labour market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at late stages in their product...

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main …

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Small Firms and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

least as innovative as their larger counterparts poses something of a paradox. Where do small firms get their knowledge … identification of the extent to which spillovers exist between major sources generating new knowledge, such as the R&D laboratories … more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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