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Pulls, pushes and entitlement failures in labor markets: does the state of development matter?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006

This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model's parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...

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Can economic crises be good for your diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - 2011

With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...

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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233812

Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922962

Does easy start-up formation hamper incumbents' R&D investment? A theoretical and empirical analysis

Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2013

Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …

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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?

Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …

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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2003

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … signs and turn out to be significant, the job creating impact of innovation proves robust after checking for time, industry …

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