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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …
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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …
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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 (UNESCO and Urban Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Background paper for "Technology and knowledge for economic growth and employment in Europe"
Handler, Heinz; Cameron, Gavin F.; Falk, Martin; Falk, Rahel - In: Growth and employment through innovation. 2005
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Ideas and Growth
Lucas, Robert E, Jr - 2008
exchanging ideas, solving work-related problems, generating new knowledge …
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482634
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Large Countries, Small Countries, and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs
Casella, Alessandra - 1995
prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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Political Credit Cycles : The Case of the Euro Zone
Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus - 2013
process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459762