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Labour market performance and start-up costs : OECD evidence

López-García, Paloma - 2003

This paper is intended to make a contribution to the empirical literature explaining the rise of unemployment since the 1970s in western economies by means of interactions between shocks and institutions. The contribution is twofold. First, the impact of a general feature of developed economies...

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The past and future of work : how history can inform the age of automation

Schneider, Benjamin; Vipond, Hillary - 2023

Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in history are rarely considered in depth or used to improve...

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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures the...

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Flow of ideas : economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; Koschnick, Julius - 2022

Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3,300 members across active economic societies in...

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Distribution and use of knowledge under the laws of the web

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2007

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Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society

Constant, Amelie - 2019

This chapter provides a state-of-the-art literature review about research that aims to explain the return, repeat, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it...

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Generative AI and the nature of work

Hoffmann, Manuel; Boysel, Sam; Nagle, Frank; Peng, Sida; … - 2024 - This version: October 27, 2024

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid to how AI might change the...

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Unbalanced financial globalization

Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …

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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022

and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …

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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

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