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of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …
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Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …
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THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …
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often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …
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-fifth of the cross-sectional gender wage gap in Portugal …
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Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...
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We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...
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existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of … patent citations to construct a measure of the usefulness of the existing base of scientific knowledge, I consider the effect … knowledge adversely affects the estimation results …
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the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …
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from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990 …
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