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Catching up or lagging behind? : the long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019
survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126136
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060354
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571666
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Trade labor, market rigidities, and government-financed technological change
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
commodity prices, openness induces the government to subsidize technological innovation in the developed country because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339677
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Mapping technologies to business models : an application to clean technologies and entrepreneurship
Dörr, Julian Oliver - 2022
Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required for the development and diffusion of more sustainable forms of production, consumption, mobility and housing. Unconstrained by past technological investments, entrants can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460358
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428248
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When supply meets demand : wage inequality in Portugal
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2009
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at the core of this evolution. Since 1995,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923561
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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Beer, wood, and welfare
Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2014
Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female owned, small enterprises and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on...
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