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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...
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The Demand for Variety : A Household Production Perspective
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' supply of variety, but little to consumers' demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in human...
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2021
This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...
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Secular Satiation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017
Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given …
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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap : Is R&D the Main Culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
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Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2010
levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …
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Up or Out : Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012
analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …
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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...
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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?
Catalini, Christian - 2016
We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …
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