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We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...
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knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …
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We perform an econometric analysis of the effect of new drug launches on longevity, using data from the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database. Our data cover virtually all of the diseases borne by people in 52 countries during the period 1982-2001, and enable us to...
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innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology, over the past twenty years, on estimation of firm-level investment … correction, traditional between- and within-firm estimation versus GMM estimation, the investment behavior of French firms versus … significant improvement in the specification, estimation and interpretation of firm investment equations; we also fin some real …
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) surveyed employees. As an illustration in the second part of the paper, we consider the estimation of the relationship between …
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for estimation of the marginal productivity of workers classified by length of service to the firm, i.e., of the tenure …
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There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated individuals are more likely to adopt new medical...
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We hypothesize that pharmaceutical-embodied technical progress increases per capita output via its effect on labor supply (the employment rate and hours worked per employed person). We examine the effect of changes in both the average quantity and average vintage (FDA approval year) of drugs...
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models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual … data are available for only one type of innovation - new drugs - but pharmaceutical R&D accounts for a significant fraction … innovation (in the form of new drug approvals) and expenditure on medical care (especially public expenditure) contributed to …
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