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employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
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in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and … research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … and are more likely to display the inverted U relationship between competition and innovation. …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information …
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In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national …
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According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...
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We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
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A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
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It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum...
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