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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078574
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646287
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A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time - the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies which have served as a model for development in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762411
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Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094080
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884338
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …
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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?
Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265645
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Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233754
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On-The-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233771
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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Pearson, Mark; Martin, John P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …, there is some reason hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more … technically able to assess?) cannot be overcome without extensive regulation, which has the effect of limiting innovation and …
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