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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...
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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. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
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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...
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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...
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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium
Grossmann, Volker (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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Earnings dynamics and inequality among men in Luxembourg, 1988 - 2004 : evidence from administrative data
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2010
Starting with the late 1980s and intensifying after early 1990s, Luxembourg evolved from an industrial economy to an … extraordinary longitudinal dataset drawn from administrative records on professional career, we decomposed Luxembourg’s growth in … Luxembourg are worst off both in terms of their relative wage and in terms of their opportunity of improving their relative …
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Differential welfare state impacts for frontier working age families
Burlacu, Irina S.; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2012
evaluate the impact of unemployment benefits and income taxation on these frontier workers' welfare in Luxembourg and Belgium …
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Myth or fact? : the beauty premium across the wage distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2012
. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …
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A tax benefit model for policy evaluation in Luxembourg : LuxTaxBen
Islam, Nizamul; Flood, Lennart - 2015
unearned income. The LuxTaxBen is capable to handle almost all parts of the Luxembourg tax and transfer systems. Such a model … Luxembourg tax-transfer system. The model consists of a number of modules such as module for child benefit, housing allowance …
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