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In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …
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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …
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research is needed to elaborate the design of systems of public procurement of AI innovation and for appropriately adjusting … the legal frameworks underpinning high-tech innovation, in particular dealing with patents created by AI. …
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and 30% to education signaling workers' ability. …
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Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
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A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...
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This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O …*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However …
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This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their …. -- Signaling ; job markets ; education ; employer learning ; intuitive criterion …
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information about the return to transactions with particular agents. In a search framework, signaling supports not simply a … willing to trade with them. We also show that, if agents are able to learn from transactions, racial signaling can emerge with …
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