? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

productivity growth, i.e. “bad times,” increase the political support for more labor market rigidity only where labor appropriates …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of … technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper. …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … growth and produce and commercialize high quality innovations. They are more satisfied than employees. More importantly …

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …-term positive association between the growth of happiness and income, arising from fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions, with …

growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective … rate of growth in GDP per capita significantly positively associated with a greater improvement in SWB. In the developing … countries studied here a greater increase in happiness does not accompany more rapid economic growth. These conclusions hold …