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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
investment in knowledge (or intangible) capital. This contribution is measured from company spending on knowledge … innovation. We implement it for six UK market sector industries, 2000-2005, combining with output and tangible investment data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075
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Capital accumulation and unemployment : new insights on the Nordic experience
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2007
channels of the capital stock effects, i.e. using variables like interest rates or investment ratios in the estimation of … downturn of capital stock growth in Finland. We are thus able to explain why the crisis of the early 1990s had a more acute … impact in Finland than in its twin economy, Sweden. -- Unemployment dynamics ; chain reaction theory ; capital accumulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608449
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Performance pay and enterprise productivity : the details matter
Kato, Takao; Kauhanen, Antti - 2018
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859633
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The role of firm dynamics in the green transition : carbon productivity decomposition in Finnish manufacturing
Kuosmanen, Natalia; Maczulskij, Terhi - 2023
This paper explores the importance of firm dynamics, including entry and exit and the allocation of carbon emissions across firms, on the green transition. Using the 2000–2019 firm-level register data on greenhouse gas emissions matched with the Financial Statement data in the Finnish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499447
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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905008
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GDP and the value of family caretaking : how much does Europe care?
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2010
This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data limitations. This paper fills this gap using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986368
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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951423
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high … technology firms, the effect of the software investment is smaller than the effect of research and development personnel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
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How ICT investment and energy use influence the productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited. The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339597