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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production
Papps, Kerry L. - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of …
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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Haskel, Jonathan - 2013
data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095089
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Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries : the Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2019
In this paper we explore the role of the sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) in explaining the behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment-population rates, and labour force participation rates between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870223
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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Svejnar, Jan; Domadenik, Polona; Praanikar, Janez - 2021
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D : An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro - 2014
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068355
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Direct, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies
Siegloch, Sebastian; Wehrhöfer, Nils; Etzel, Tobias - 2021
We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited : Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
Karanassou, Marika - 2010
with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that productivity growth affects the labour share in the long run due to … frictional growth (that is, the interplay of wage dynamics and productivity growth). In the light of this result, we consider a … (or, equivalently, the wage-productivity gap) deserves the attention of policy makers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139711
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Managers and Productivity Differences
Guner, Nezih - 2016
productivity differences, and the size-dependent distortions emphasized in the misallocation literature. Our findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002439
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317253
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117402