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-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … tax credit at families and low-income workers, lowering the top marginal tax rates, and maintaining the tax incentives for …
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We examine the impacts of both domestic and international financial market development on R&D intensities in 22 manufacturing industries in 18 OECD countries for the period 1990- 2003. We take account of such industry characteristics as the need for external financing and the amount of tangible...
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Many countries have introduced patent box regimes in recent years, offering a reduced tax rate to businesses for their IP-related income. Patent boxes are supposed to increase innovative activity, but they are also suspected to aim at attracting inward profit shifting from multinational...
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The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...
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by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential … it. In this manuscript, we study how fertile Chinese research is, as measured by citations. Using publication and … research, Chinese PIs' articles receive 28% fewer citations from US researchers. Our results imply that US researchers do not …
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be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R …&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods R&D. This in turn may be used as an argument for environmental R …&D getting more public support than other R&D. In this paper we systematically compare the incentives for environmental R&D with …
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Student achievement has been identified as important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between redistributive government activities and investment in human capital measured by student performance in international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science...
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&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …
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In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent …
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