Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,733
Cover Image
Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224593
Cover Image
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. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
Cover Image
Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374120
Cover Image
Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
Cover Image
Public support for innovation, intangible investment and productivity growth in the UK market sector
Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2010
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other “research” activities, such as software. Second, argument still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940536
Cover Image
A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777874
Cover Image
Labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
common empirical approach and a complete simulation of tax-benefit policies affecting household budgets. We find that wage … robust to several modeling assumptions. We show that differences in tax-benefit systems or demographic compositions explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310155
Cover Image
Steady-state labor supply elasticities : a survey
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - 2013
the Hausman estimation approach to discrete-choice models with tax-benefit simulations). Meta-analysis evidence suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204509
Cover Image
An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124754
Cover Image
Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium
Grossmann, Volker (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743823