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The macroeconomic role of unemployment compensation

Blumkin, Tomer; Hadar, Yossi; Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The standard motivation for unemployment compensation is consumption smoothing and most papers in the literature have analyzed trade-offs involving consumption smoothing and moral hazard. This paper shows how such policy can increase output by enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the...

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UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE PERSISTENCE ON EMPLOYMENT SHOCKS.

PISSARIDES, C. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1990

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Robots at work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007....

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TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND JOBS.

NICKELL, S.; KOMG, P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom

Nickell, S. J.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

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Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …

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