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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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Cost-Reducing R&D in the Presence of an Appropriation Alternative: An Application to the Natural Resource Curse

Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an … increase in resources decreases innovation in the formal sector, both income and welfare still go up. Meanwhile, for …

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Parallel Imports and Innovation in an Emerging Economy

Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …

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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?

Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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Strategic Immigration Policies and Welfare in Heterogeneous Countries

Fujita, Masahisa; Weber, Shlomo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from “the rest of the world”. The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...

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Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization

Corato, Luca Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...

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