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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period 2000-2008, considering 5 manufacturing and services industries that differ in the … level of technological intensity. Industries in the Netherlands are characterized by a larger average proportion of high …

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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2024

The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper …-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model … identifies the impact of innovation, imitation and R&D costs on firms' R&D decisions. R&D costs gained importance in Switzerland …

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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002

for daily newspapers in the Netherlands. The econometric analysis uses data on when and where the newspapers existed and …

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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation : evidence from Dutch firm-level data

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

; innovation ; cultural diversity ; knowledge spillovers ; linked employer-employee data ; Netherlands … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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Measuring cultural diversity and its impact on innovation : longitudinal evidence from Dutch firms

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2013

linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and …To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

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Something from nothing : estimating consumption rates using propensity scores, with application to emissions reduction policies

Bardsley, Nicholas; Büchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2016

Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to estimate each unit's consumption rate, revealing the distribution. We demonstrate the method using the...

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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market

Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016

We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...

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UK households' carbon footprint : a comparison of the association between household characteristics and emissions from home energy, transport and other goods and services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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Payment for ecosystem services from forests

Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...

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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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