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contradict the belief in the innovation-boosting effect of increased competition such as taken into account in the Lisbon …
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The full employment commitments of the western governments of the post war period originated in a certain broad accord on what "modern capitalism" should allow in terms of welfare an employment and what the policy means should be to achieve it. A similar broad vision is necessary to realise the...
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Analyses of structural transformations of modern developed economies have led in the second half of the 90s to two important debates. One bore on the skill bias nature of technological change, the other underlined the likely overestimation of consumer prices and therefore the underestimation of...
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This paper builds a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of endogenous growth that is capable of generating substantial degrees of endogenous persistence in productivity. When products go out of patent protection, the rush of entry into their production destroys incentives for...
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fondée sur la connaissance et l’innovation. L’Union Européenne ne paraît pas en mesure d’atteindre l’objectif de Lisbonne, c …
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. While gender...
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The Russian Federation, which was created in 1992, recognises patents granted by the USSR. The development of a new IPR law contributed to channel potential private funding towards research activities. The experience of various European countries may be compared with current Russian practices....
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In this paper we investigate evidence for the "skill bias" of organizational change (OC). These include the decentralization of authority, delayering of managerial functions and increased multi-tasking. We use several sources of panel data on British and French establishments. Three findings...
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Le Big Bang domine potentiellement le gradualisme d'une part du fait du délais qu'il occasionne et d'autre part du fait de la complémentarité des réformes économiques. Cela dit la coopération sociale, définie de façon large, étant un déterminant important des réformes, le big bang...
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The notion of Social System of Innovation and Production (SSIP) refers to an approach that tries to incorporate … systems of innovation. Once the diversity of these patterns and of their influence on economic performance is assessed, the … will remained rather diverse, a diversity that European and national innovation policies should clearly take into account …
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