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innovation. We first establish a positive and significant correlation between various measures of innovativeness and top income … in the top 1% income share between 1975 and 2010. Finally, we show that innovation does not increase broader measures of … inequality which do not focus on top incomes, and that innovation is positively correlated with social mobility, but less so in …
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The African continent has grown by more than 4 per cent yearly on average during the past decade. However, the link between this remarkable growth rate and poverty reduction is neither obvious nor simple. This paper focuses on the elasticity of poverty with respect to GDP growth at the sectoral...
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In this paper, I propose a new Keynesian DSGE model with labor market search and matching frictions which replicates the low volatility and the moderate procyclicality of the labor force participation rate, that are observed in the United States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can...
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and Japan, compare to the US, is explained by institutional aspects: a lower education level, on average, of the working …
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Estimating returns to hours worked and the employment rate provides us with an original interpretation of changes in US …
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competition on R&D according to the cost of the innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the … shape is flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly …. Intuitively, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …
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Advertising and innovation are two engines for firms to escape competition through a better attraction power toward …
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Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …
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The Innovation tax credit (crédit d’impôt innovation, CII) is an extension of the Research tax credit (crédit d … find a greater increase in employment in the short term for firms benefiting from the scheme, along with a more pronounced …
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Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We builda tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response toexogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We thenquantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macrolevel is about 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229867