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I estimate a life cycle model of consumption choice with unemployment risk. Employed individuals face the risk of losing their job. Unemployed agents receive job random offers of different quality, which they can accept or reject. Following the loss of a job and during unemployment, an agent’s...

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

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

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

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Networks of Innovation Clusters in Cova da Beira (Portugal)

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