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Science & Technology (S&T) is high on the Chinese policy agenda but there are large uncertainties on the actual S …
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The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into …
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Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all employment growth since the mid 1990s has...
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The Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research (IUI) was founded in 1939. In less than ten years, IUI grew from a small survey bureau to a leading research institute focused on microeconomic research relevant to industrial development. Based on a number of new commemorative essays and...
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Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
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This study has analyzed the relatioonship between strategical factors and the outcomes when technical consumtancy firms (TCFs) submit tender documents in order to obtain foreign assignment.
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the new technology is emphasized. A major finding for all breakthroughs is that there is a long lag from the time of the …
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This paper examines how Science and Technology (S&T) contribute to job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector … building have placed Science and Technology (S&T) high on the Chinese policy agenda. At the same time, the need for job …. S&T can be expected to have both positive and negative effects on employment. For instance, new technology might …
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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … together. A big-push type of model, featuring linkages between firms, demand spill-over, and technology choice is elaborated …. By imposing different cost structures on the manufacturing and high-technology industries the model describes outcome in …
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This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees in Sweden; different estimation methods and models...
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