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How Do Firing Costs Affect Innovation and Growth when Workers' Ability is Unknown? – Employment Protection as a Burden on a Firm's Screening Process
Berdugo, Binyamin; Hadad, Sharon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyzes the implication of employment protection legislation on a firm's screening process. We present a model in which human-capital-intensive firms (high-tech) with imperfect information about their workers' type attempt during a trial period to identify those incompetent workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616679
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A Theory of Intelligence and Total Factor Productivity: Value Added Reflects the Fruits of Fluid Intelligence
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) that incorporates a model of intelligence is formulated and … is based on item response theory, which is widely used in psychology and psychometrics. TFP is assumed to be an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259766
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How enterprise strategies are related to innovation and productivity change: An empirical study of Japanese manufacturing firms
Fujii, Hidemichi; Kazuma, Edamura; Sumikura, Koichi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study analyzes the total factor productivity of 1,067 Japanese manufacturing firms. In production estimation, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112811
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R&D, socio-economic conditions and regional innovation in the United States
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009705828
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Towards an efficient use of R&D : accounting for heterogeneity in the OECD
Cullmann, Astrid; Zloczysti, Petra - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723136
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Innovation, "bank" monitoring and endogenous financial development
Fuente, Ángel de la - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013422166
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009705835
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Mapping the two faces of R&D : productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries
Griffith, Rachel - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013423067
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668222
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UK innovation index : productivity and growth in UK industries
Goodridge, Peter; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581849