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Fawcett, Nicholas; Cameron, Gavin - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

Productivity, or the amount of output produced by a given number of inputs,can be measured in a number of ways;1 the focus of Governmentpolicy, and much of the theoretical and empirical literature, is on labourproductivity, which provides the theme of the discussion in this review.A central...

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THE SUN ALSO RISES: PRODUCTIVITY CONVERGENCE BETWEENJAPAN AND THE USA

Cameron, Gavin - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2000

The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower.While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertakeoriginal research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, thefollower must undertake...

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobilityfor Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …

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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects,and Innovative Activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for thepopulation of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our studydocuments a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and thefirm’s innovative activity. This...

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners?Determinants of Innovation in Micro,Small, and Medium Enterprises

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differencesin productivity across and … survey from Sri Lanka totest this model and to examine whether and how owner characteristics matter for innovation.The survey … also allows analysis of the incidence of innovation in micro and small firms, whichhave traditionally been overlooked in …

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Incentives and Cooperation in Firms:Field Evidence

Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree ofcooperation in firms using a unique and representative data set. Combining employee surveydata with detailed firm level information on the relative importance of individual, team, andcompany performance for...

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Corporate R&D and Firm Effi ciency:Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...

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KNOWLEDGE-DRIVEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2006

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information andcommunications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures oneconomic development. The results strongly suggest that both mass me-dia and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. Thisresult holds across...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to thesame externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal andinformal firms have monopoly...

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Income Tax Flattening:Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems onthe size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revivesthe traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. Itovercomes the limitations of...

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