We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational …-using effect (direct effect). When human capital is an essential input in the production of generic and energy dedicated knowledge … knowledge. A policy mix that combines educational as well as climate objectives offsets the human capital crowding-out with a …

Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …

With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how … knowledge is produced and diffused. This paper takes a step to analyze a new form of globalization, the so-called system of … Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences …

over the period 1978-2006. We investigate how energy prices, market size and knowledge stocks affect firms' incentives to … margin innovation decision (i.e. whether to conduct innovation) from the intensive margin decision (i.e. how much to innovate …). Overall, we find that all three factors – energy prices, market sizes and past knowledge stocks - matter to redirect …