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School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
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What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change: schools allow children from different socio-economic...
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implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
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through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …
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To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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