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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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Does foreign entry spur innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015

trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …

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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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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. -- Innovation …

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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock

Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015

This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...

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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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Re-defining informal employment and measuring its determinants : evidence from Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2013

Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is not easy and it is crucial to provide a valid definition of it. This paper contributes to the recent discussion of the measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich...

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Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

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Trade liberalization and employment effects in Ukraine

Christev, Atanas (contributor); Kupets, Olga (contributor); … - 2005

This paper addresses the important issue of the effects of trade liberalization on labor market job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use disaggregated data on manufacturing industries and customs...

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Gross job flows in Ukraine : size, ownership and trade effects

Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2002

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing sector for the years 1998-2000. There are several important findings in the paper. Job...

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