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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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Assessing Welfare Accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661890
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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development — periods when legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148877
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Why Don't Women Patent?
Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; Hunt, Jennifer; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...
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Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …
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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792315
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Perfectly Competitive Innovation
Boldrin, Michele; Levine, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We construct a competitive model of innovation and growth under constant returns to scale. Previous models of growth … under constant returns cannot model technological innovation. Current models of endogenous innovation rely on the interplay … innovation and sees the non-rivalrous nature of ideas as a natural conduit to increasing returns. The results here challenge the …
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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662038
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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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