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A General Theory of Endogenous Market Structures

Etro, Federico; Bertoletti, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2014

We provide a unified approach to imperfect (monopolistic, Bertrand and Cournot) competition equilibria with demand functions derived from symmetric preferences over a large but finite number of goods. The equilibrium markups depend on the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution/Complementarity...

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College wage premium over time: trends in Europe in the last 15 years.

Crivellaro, Elena - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2014

While there has been intense debate in the empirical literature over the evolution of the college wage premium in the United States, its evolution in Europe has received little attention. This paper investigates the causes of the evolution of the college wage premium in 12 european countries...

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Education vs TFP: Empirical Evidence from The Sub-Saharan Countries

Cazzavillan, Guido; Donadelli, Michael - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2012

This paper investigates the "education-total factor productivity trade-off" in explaining per worker income differences between Sub-Saharan (unlucky) and G7 (lucky) economies. Following Hall and Jones (1999) and Caselli (2005), on a country basis, we are able to study separately the dynamic of...

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The causal effect of parents’ schooling on children’s schooling in Europe. A new IV approach

Havari, Enkelejda; Savegnago, Marco - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013

This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using representative data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). A novel instrumental variable approach is used to solve the endogeneity issue. We combine...

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Training and wages of older workers in Europe

Belloni, Michele; Villosio, Claudia - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2014

The financial deficits of many social security systems caused by ageing populations and stagnating economies are forcing workers to retire later from the labour market. An extended working life combined with rapid technological progress in many sectors, is likely making older workers’ skills...

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The age-productivity gradient: evidence from a sample of F1 drivers

Castellucci, Fabrizio; Padula, Mario; Pica, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2009

Estimating the effect of aging on productivity is a daunting task. First, it requires clean measures of productivity. Second, unobserved heterogeneity at workers, firms and workers/firms level challenges the identification of the age-productivity gradient in cross-sectional data. Finally, the...

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Job Mobility and Skill Transferability. Some Evidences from Denmark and a Large Italian Region

Ibsen, Rikke; Trevisan, Elisabetta; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2008

This paper investigates the effect of job mobility and tenure on wage dynamics. In this respect, theory assesses that high job mobility and low tenure are associated to lower wage drop when workers experience a job change. We test this theory first comparing two labour market (i.e. Denmark and a...

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Endogenous Market Structures and Innovation by Leaders: an Empirical Test

Etro, Federico; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2011

these predictions based on a unique dataset and survey for the German manufacturing sector (the Mannheim Innovation Panel …

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Human capital formation and global warming mitigation: evidence from an integrated assessment model

Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2009

evidence, this paper includes human capital and knowledge in a state-of-the art integrated assessment model. Introducing human … capital makes it possible to assess the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies …. Results indicate that climate policy stimulates a dedicated form of energy-knowledge without reducing generic R&D investments …

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Green Economy: great expectation or big illusion?

Musu, Ignazio - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010

environmental regulation and innovation policy is required. Revenues from economic instruments of environmental regulation can be …

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