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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly …
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This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of …
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employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …
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The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
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increase the unemployment rate. We then discuss a number of policy responses (tax cuts, direct government employment of the … unskilled, employment subsidies to firms for hiring the unskilled, increased generosity of unemployment insurance) under … employment of unskilled workers, financed by a rise in the employer payroll tax rate associated with skilled workers is a viable …
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always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …
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This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...
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The present complexity approach is based on two assumptions: A1: measurability of deviations of outcomes with respect to reference values; A2 : extension of A1 to multi-set analysis. Complexity is then defined in terms of multi-set deviation compared to single-set ones; an interpretation is...
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in DCs), or as resource extraction (which is supposed to be the case in LDCs), matters for the dynamics of the optimal …
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