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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
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IPTS has launched a research project on how ICT can support employability, in the context of its policy support activities for the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy, and the Digital Agenda for Europe. As a first step, JRC-IPTS contracted the Institute of Employment Research, University...
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This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
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In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation of potential adoption of herbicide-tolerant (HT) genetically modified (GM) rapeseed in France. Our aim is to study ex ante the potential impact of their adoption in France, in terms of adoption level, economic gains, and distribution of these...
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …
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This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the … technological characteristics a firm has. In general, internal R&D leads to product innovation, while machinery acquisition leads to …
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of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … Pavitt classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out …
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This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...
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