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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...

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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...

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Innovation height, spillovers and TFP growth at the firm level: Evidence from French manufacturing

Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …

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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004

in this area uses “backward” citations to measure technological knowledge acquired by the patenting entities studied …. “Forward” citations (citations to the firm’s patents made by other patents) have been interpreted as a measure of the knowledge … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …

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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …

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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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Networks of Innovation Clusters in Cova da Beira (Portugal)

Leitao, Joao; Osorio, Carlos - EconWPA - 2005

This article proposes a normative model for the cluster articulation in Cova da Beira (Portugal), based on network … functioning which accomplishes the general purposes of the National Integrated Programme to the Support for Innovation, and …

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Innovationsgesellschaft heute : Perspektiven, Felder und Fälle

Rammert, Werner (ed.); Windeler, Arnold (ed.); … - 2016

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Innovation society today : perspectives, fields, and cases

Rammert, Werner (ed.); Windeler, Arnold (ed.); … - 2018

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