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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach … the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which …
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Long-run effects of public-private research joint ventures : the case of the Danish innovation consortia support scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - 2011
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly … ; research joint venture ; research and development ; research subsidies …
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Money for something : the links between research funding and innovation
Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018
Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend … taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order … the next generation of scientists and inventors - teams funded by research grants - leads to innovative activity as …
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Government subsidies as a risk-sharing policy tool in innovation investment
Lu, Hao; Fuentes, Claudia de; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022
Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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Wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - 2015
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
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More unequal, but more mobile? : earnings inequality and mobility in OECD countries
Garnero, Andrea; Hijzen, Alexander; Martin, Sébastien - 2016
-generational mobility by simulating individual earnings and employment trajectories in the long-term using short panel data for 24 OECD …
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Local and spatial cointegration in the wage curve : a spatial panel analysis for German regions
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2015
unemployment. Empirical results focus on particular theoretical channels establishing the relationship. Panel models mostly draw on … this paper, we adopt a global cointegration approach recently proposed by Bienstock and Felsenstein (2010) to account for …
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Behind the lighthouse effect
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Ribeiro, Marta - 2010
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far explained as a byproduct of a signal conveyed by statutory minimum wages to wage setting in the...
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : evidence from the employers' side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
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Labour market institutions, technology and rent sharing
Fukao, Kyōji; Perugini, Cristiano; Pompei, Fabrizio - 2020
In this paper we analyse how labour market institutions and technology affect wage determination through rent sharing. To this aim we first extend the theoretical framework of Estevao and Tevlin (2003) to account for heterogeneity of labour (regular and non-regular workers). The predictions of...
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