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Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481684

Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of labour market flexibility in transition...

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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Determinants and policy simulation of firms cooperation in innovation

Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - 2013

manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities. These determinants are … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …

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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013

The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...

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Is there such thing as middle class values? Class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America

López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - 2012

Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...

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Do middle classes bring institutional reforms?

Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - 2012

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...

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The unfairness of (poverty) targets

Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, Luis … - 2013

Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries ...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...

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