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Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

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Spatial patterns of technology diffusion : an empirical analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …

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Aggregation bias in elasticities of substitution and the minimum wage paradox

Teulings, Coen N. - 1998

While the employment effects of minimum wages are usually reported to be small (suggesting low substitutability between skill types), direct estimates suggest a much larger degree of substitutability. This paper argues that this paradox is largely due to a bias induced by the aggregation of...

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Skill intensity in foreign trade and economic growth

Wörz, Julia - 2004

This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...

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Dual track or academic route for auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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Cognitive capital and islands of innovation : the Lucas growth model from a regional perspective

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

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The (self-)funding of intangibles

Döttling, Robin; Ladika, Tomislav; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2016

In response to technological change, U.S. corporations have been investing more in intangible capital. This transformation is empirically associated with lower leverage and greater cash holdings, and commonly explained as a precautionary response to reduced debt capacity. We model how firms'...

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Skill intensity in foreign trade and economic growth

Wörz, Julia - 2004

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001

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