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This paper investigates the relationship between firms’ innovation practices and performance in Taiwan. Using a panel of 4000 firms, we examine the effects of importing technology (versus doing R&D) on Total Factor Porductivity (TFP) growth. The relationship between these two innovation...
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unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetriesmay have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
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that reason, a policy increasing the social capital of the disadvantaged workers can increase the unemployment rate and …
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on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …
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them after. In these setups, we comprehensively study the relations between technical progress, unemployment, and job …
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This paper aims at explaining the dynamics of labor markets in Spain, especially the high persistence of unemployment …
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This article argues in favor of drawing a distinction between the concepts of labour rationing and unemployment, the … unemployment, are put forward. Lucas’ widely accepted view that some job alternatives are always available will thereby be … challenged. In part three, the relationship between labour rationing and (involuntary) unemployment is examined in the context of …
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This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The simulations …
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In this paper, different scenarios of increased cooperation between China and African countries are simulated. Recent intensification of political and economic ties between China and Sub-Saharan Afreican countries may give hope that an economic improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is...
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This paper brings new insights on gender interaction in the management of hybrid organizations. Our database comes from Union des Mutuelles du Partenariat pour la Mobilisation de l’Epargne et du Crédit au Sénégal (UM-PAMECAS), a Senegalese network made of 38 financial cooperatives providing...
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