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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of … strengthening its role in knowledge spillovers to client industries. …

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Scale, scope and entrepreneurship

Bitros, George C. - EconWPA - 2004

geographically and function-ally. They promoted rapid innovation by resorting to systematic Research and Development ef- forts. And … innovation in the econ-omy. Hence, to the extent that policy makers strive to achieve the priorities of citizens, they are …

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Firm Size and the Quality of Entrepreneurs

Hvide, Hans K. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2004

A theory is proposed where the pay policy and size of established firms are determined together with individual workers' entrepreneurship decision. The main results are twofold. First, taking the firm size as given, larger firms tend to have less flexible wages and produce entrepreneurs of...

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik G. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2006

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

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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach

Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005

of analysis. Considering as unit of analysis the region of Beira Interior (Portugal), this article aims to provide a TOWS …

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