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This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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); innovation returns are modeled as following an ex ante known probability distribution. By assuming that innovation outcomes are …
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Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...
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impurity is very low as long as one party's investment is more important than the other party's. If the parties' investments …
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increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R … more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …
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logarithmic over consumption. Human capital investment is risky due to idiosyncratic shocks that follow a Markov process with … human capital investment in the market economy …
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structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …
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capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income … both trade and foreign direct investment and thereby get a better understanding of complex international investment, trade … and FDI dynamics – including with respect to the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...
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