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Did British women achieve long-term economic benefits from working in essential WWII industries?
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased labour supply was achieved through government directed...
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Recovery from work and the productivity of working hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2016
Observations on munition workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their working hours and days each week, and their working hours and days in adjacent weeks. The hypothesis is that workers need to recover from work and a long working week results in...
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The causal effects of an industrial policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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Multipliers from a major public sector relocation : the BBC moves to Salford
Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.; Riom, Capucine; … - 2024
This paper considers the impact of a major public sector relocation: the British Broadcasting Corporation's partial move from London to Salford, Greater Manchester starting in 2011. We identify effects of the move using synthetic control methods applied to plant-level data at Local Authority and...
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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
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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The intellectual spoils of war? : defense R&D, productivity and international spillovers
Moretti, Enrico; Steinwender, Claudia; Van Reenen, John - 2019
which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government …
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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?
Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019
In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...
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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …. The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a permanent reduction in innovation and entrepreneurship and may even bring the 4th …
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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