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This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …
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), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
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characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
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marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
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We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …
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, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …
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This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
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, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
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We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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