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How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? : evidence from South African tax registers

Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; … - 2018

We study the responsiveness of small and medium-sized firms to a small-business corporate income tax schedule using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizeable bunching of firms at the corporate income thresholds where the corporate tax rate increases, implying active...

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ICT, collaboration, and science-based innovation : evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …

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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market

Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021

This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in … for the years 2000-2016. Our results indicate that standards are a very robust driver inducing clean innovation, whereas … negatively impact dirty innovation. …

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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade

Calel, Raphael - 2018

Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …

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Labor scarcity, technology adoption and innovation : evidence from the cholera pandemics in 19th century France

Franck, Raphaël - 2022

To analyze the impact of labor scarcity on technology adoption and innovation, this study uses the differential spread …, had a positive and significant shortrun effect on technology adoption and innovation in agriculture but a negative and …

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Institutions, financial development, and small business survival : evidence from European emerging markets

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020

In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...

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Techies and firm level productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …

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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016

Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...

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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology : the case of primary care clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

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