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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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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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that reason, a policy increasing the social capital of the disadvantaged workers can increase the unemployment rate and …
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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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We analyze whether and how the fact that products are not sold on free, public, platforms but on competing for-profit platforms affects sellers’ investment incentives. Investments in cost reduction, quality, or marketing measures are here to joint and coordinated efforts by sellers. We show...
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The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of the decision to innovate in Taiwan. Three “innovation strategies” are considered : doing R&D only, importing technology only, and combining both. We estimate a Bivariate Probit on a panel of more than 27000 Taiwanese...
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