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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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In times of trouble : innovative drivers of external competitiveness for small businesses during the Great Recession

Brancati, Emanuele; Brancati, Raffaele; Guarascio, Dario; … - 2020

disproportionate effects of innovation for smaller and less productive companies. This points at dynamic strategies as a potential tool …

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Covid-19 vaccines, innovation, and intellectual property rights

Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - 2022

Should the intellectual property rights on the first Covid-19 vaccines be temporarily lifted in applying the Trade-Related Aspect of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) flexibility? Is it right to grant the first generation of Covid-19 vaccines a special treatment from an IPR perspective? On what...

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A lasting crisis affects R&D decisions of smaller firms : the Greek experience

Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Kritikos, Alexander; Tsakanikas, … - 2022

We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation … strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between … R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At …

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Innovation and the labor market : theory, evidence and challenges

Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new …

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Preserving job matches during the COVID-19 pandemic : firm-level evidence on the role ofgovernment aid

Bennedsen, Morten; Larsen, Birthe; Schmutte, Ian; Scur, … - 2020

We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policies on firms' aid takeup, layoff and furlough decisions. We collect new survey data for 10,642 small, medium and large Danish firms, and match to government records of all aid-supported furloughed workers during the pandemic as...

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Covid-19 and working from home : toward a "new normal"?

Kosteas, Vasilios D.; Renna, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022

The COVID pandemic that took the world economy by surprise at the beginning of 2020 brought many drastic changes to the way individuals carry on their daily lives. One that will have long lasting effects, even after the spread of the virus is contained, is a shift towards flexible work...

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Worker voice and political participation in civil society

Budd, John W.; Lamare, J. Ryan - 2020

Worker voice can relate to political and civic participation in numerous ways. Individual and collective voice can equip individuals with skills and attitudes that increase political engagement, and unions also explicitly encourage members to be politically aware, vote, and run for office. Labor...

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The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials

Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021

Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...

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The significance of Herzberg and Taylor for the gig economy of China : evaluating gigger incentives for Meituan and Ele.me

Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo Rick; Chatwin, Chris - 2021

This article investigates the motivation of contingent workers in the gig economy of China, particularly focusing on the two Mobile Food Delivery Aggregators (MFDA) - Meituan and Ele.me that controls over 80% of the food delivery market in China. The convenience of one "super-app" on phone,...

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