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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861835
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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136493
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Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth : An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model
Devadas, Sharmila - 2018
accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909745
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Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure : An International Benchmarking Exercise
Herrera, Santiago - 2018
) are scored in a sample of 175 countries using data from 2006-16 on education, health, and infrastructure. The paper … need more resources than others to achieve similar education, health, and infrastructure outcomes …
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Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
Marcelo, Darwin - 2018
Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a … natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment … Partnership to focus attention on the quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries, with a focus on promoting …
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Public Infrastructure and Structural Transformation
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2017
This study argues that public infrastructure is an important though previously neglected driving mechanism of the … neoclassical growth model with heterogeneous firms, where public infrastructure contributes to firms' production and mitigates the … infrastructure in recent decades, yet remains in deep need of further infrastructure improvements. The accumulation of infrastructure …
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