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What drives innovation? : lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430944
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Skill biased technological and organizational change : estimating a mixed simultaneous equation model using the IAB establishment panel
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002
paper analyses the interdependencies between labour demand for high and low skilled employees, innovation activities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412865
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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
various dimensions of upgrading - learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698696
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep K. (contributor);  … - 2008
sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782478
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How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? : evidence from a Danish regulatory reform
Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - 2015
We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals using quasi-experimental data for Denmark which switched from external (where reimbursements are based on prices of similar products in foreign countries) to internal reference...
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Redesigning teams and incentives in a merger : an experiment with managers and students
Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Is part-time employment beneficial for firm productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a "hard" physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124147
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Active ingredients : exploring the key factors affecting the rising cost of developing new drugs
Fossett, Sarah J.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017
What makes prescription drugs cost so much? The media and Congress say it is corporate greed, while pharmaceutical firms blame federal regulations and an expensive drug development process. This study focuses on R & D (R&D) expenditures at global pharmaceutical firms and explores the driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670851
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The times they are a-changin' : organizational change and immigrant employment opportunities in Scandinavia
Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391764
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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412907