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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …

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The Influence of Value-Chain Governance on Innovation Performance: A Study of Italian Suppliers

Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …

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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Happiness and economic growth: does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries

Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009

Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...

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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...

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Firing regulations and firm size in the developing world: Evidence from differential enforcement

Almeida, Rita K.; Susanli, Z. Bilgen - 2011

This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Wößmann, Ludger - 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...

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