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3 months, although individually the effects are negligible. This complementarity is shown to be driven by better mother …
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organisational innovation. Formal tests for complementarity and substitutability are applied to these types of innovation to assess … of complementarity among different forms of innovation. Out of six possible innovation combinations, three are … the impact of various forms of innovation, in isolation, on firms’ productivity. They do not consider whether these forms …
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The link between R&D and productivity has been widely analyzed. However, these innovation activities have been … considered as a whole. This paper analyzes the differentiated effect of research and development on productivity and tests the … existence of complementarity between these activities. We find evidence supporting the existence of a direct effect of both …
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in addition to the presence of complementarity, productivity---even if minimal---increases the likelihood of generating a …
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either breed the exploited party or educate the exploited party not to detect exploitation. Thereby a higher productivity … than cooperation or prisoners´ dilemma is achieved. The higher productivity is a benefit for the group and one party on the …
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We develop a simple estimator for production functions in the presence of endogenous productivity change that allows us … to retrieve productivity and its relationship with R&D at the firm level. Our dynamic investment model can be viewed as a … generalization of the knowledge capital model (Griliches 1979) that has remained a cornerstone of the productivity literature for …
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This paper presents the results of long run labour productivity and GDP growth rate projections (until 2050) for each … employment and labour productivity. These base case projections reflect the working assumption of “no policy change … population is fairly limited, although it is accepted that the labour productivity of an individual is likely to decline after …
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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One of the most prominent features of remuneration in the Hawaii’s longline fisheries industry has been the norm of share contract regimes. This paper investigates whether the use of share contract regime is positively correlated to increased economic returns. The principal-agent framework is...
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In a monetary union, fiscal transfers are an important policy tool to adjust to asymmetric shocks. However, fiscal transfers cannot substitute structural reforms especially when shocks are permanent. In this way, the design of fiscal transfer systems determine whether structural reforms or...
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