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Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment : a quality ladder model interpretation

Klette, Tor Jakob; Griliches, Zvi - 1999

We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth. The model for firm growth is a partial equilibrium model drawing on the quality ladder models in the macro growth literature, but also on the literature on patent races and the...

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Survival of the best fit : exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of US manufacturing plants

Bernard, Andrew B. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Principles and practice of taxing small business

Adam, Stuart; Miller, Helen - 2019

The UK taxes business income at much lower rates than employment income. In this paper we describe the problems caused by that differentiation and assess the main arguments used to defend it. We summarise the Mirrlees Review's proposals for radical reform that would align tax rates across legal...

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne (contributor); … - 2009

differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany with the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …-employment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …

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The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices

Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2014

We examine the impact of a large high-school financial education program on the intertemporal choices of adolescents. We randomly assigned the program among a sample of almost 1,000 students and measured their intertemporal choices using an incentivized experiment. While intertemporal choices in...

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Career progression, economic downturns, and skills

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions, we follow workers from labour …

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Worker displacement in France and Germany

Bender, Stefan; Dustmann, Christian; Margolis, David N.; … - 1999

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Wages and the demand for health : a life cycle analysis

Dustmann, Christian; Windmeijer, Frank - 2000

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage...

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The taxation of discrete investment choices

Devereux, Michael P.; Griffith, Rachel - 1999 - Revision 2

compared for domestic and international investment in Germany, Japan, the UK and USA between 1979 and 1997. …

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Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand

Silva, João Santos; Windmeijer, Frank - 1999

The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider. This paper studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving the two decision processes using only count data on the total...

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