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Innovation is the major instigator in competitive industry. The competition for innovation is traditionally analyzed … respectively analyzed the standard models of competitive strategies in a duopoly and oligopoly industry. By focusing our analysis … of Boone (2001) in order to determine the choice of positioning in a context of cumulative innovation. Thus, taking into …
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This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to estimate a factor augmented productivity equation. We exploit the panel …
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growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing …Several recent policy and academic contributions consider that liberalising product markets would foster innovation and … sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a …
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In this paper, I study the wage differential between firms' union representatives and their coworkers using a linked employer-employee dataset. On the employee side of the data, the surveyed workers are asked if they are unionized but we do not know which unionized workers are union...
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employment, sales, gross operating surplus and labour productivity growth. Preliminary results suggest that employment growth is …
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such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as well as growth of multifactor productivity. It seems … that employment growth is negatively associated with subsequent growth of productivity. This latter result, however, is … sensitive to our choice of productivit indicator, i.e. multifactor productivity or labour productivity. …
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the Knowledge-Base Economy: An International Overview Part 2: The Theory 2. Structural Change and the Long Run Dynamics of … of Technological Knowledge and Productivity Growth: Cross-Country Evidence from the ICT Sector 7. Evolutionary Patterns … of Knowledge Structure in Biotechnology 8. Knowledge, Structural Change and Productivity: A Special Focus on Italian …
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Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Donors advocate a new model of "willing-buyer/willing-seller\", market-led land redistribution, but actual redistribution has fallen short of expectations. Little effort...
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This paper presents evidence from three French VAT reforms showing that tax shifting on prices operates differently upwards and downwards. This may appear as a paradox when reading usual studies on price shifting. This paper puts forward two different asymmetric effects. The first one is linked...
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The point of this paper is to measure empirically the distribution of the commodity tax burden between consumers and producers. For that purpose, two French reforms are studied. These reforms are steep decreases of the VAT rate on housing repair services on the one hand, and on new car sales on...
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