. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …

market with wage rigidities may not recover from such a temporary labor supply shock: with a younger and less experienced … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience … becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …

investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime … has actively projected market-friendly policies and attracted significant amounts of incoming investment. These policies … investment disputes that question the attachment to the rule of law. Moreover, the political regime remains strongly personalized …

remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …