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Is demand-pulled innovation equally important in different groups of firms?

Piva, Mariacristina (contributor); … - 2006

Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found that overall, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by output. Using a balanced panel of 216 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, and...

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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers

Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products. We take advantage of a unique dataset of Italian firms to identify governance regimes along suppliers’ technological capabilities and the level of explicit coordination in...

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008

provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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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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The distributional impact of in kind public benefits in European countries

Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2009

International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...

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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...