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Informal employment relationships and the labor market : is there segmentation in Ukraine?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2018

One of the most important factors that determine individuals’ quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of the formal segment of the labor market against their will, i.e., the labor market is...

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Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

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Matched-pair analysis based on business survey data to evaluate the policy of supporting the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by Swiss firms

Donzé, Laurent (contributor) - 2002

We apply different matched-pair methods to evaluate the policy of sustaining the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by Swiss firms and we compare it in decomposing the selection bias. In this aim we present the evaluation problem, the decomposition of the selection bias and the...

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Intra-firm diffusion of green energy technologies and the choice of policy instruments

Stucki, Tobias; Wörter, Martin - 2016

Environmental benefits only unfold if green (environmentally friendly) technologies are widely diffused and intensively deployed within a firm. We investigate how different types of policies - directly and in combination - affect the number of different green energy technologies adopted by a...

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Parallel imports and innovation in an emerging economy

Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

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Process innovation and product quality improvement in a dynamic monopoly

Lambertini, Luca; Orsini, Raimondello - 2014

We investigate the optimal R&D portfolio of a single-product monopolist investing in cost-reducing activities accompanied by efforts improving the quality of its product. There emerges that the firm's relative incentives along the two directions are conditional upon market affluency, measured by...

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Cournot competition and "green" innovation : an inverted-U relationship

Lambertini, Luca; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tampieri, … - 2014

We examine the relationship between competition and innovation in an industry where production is polluting and R …&D aims to reduce emissions ("green" innovation). We present an n-firm oligopoly where firms compete in quantities and decide …

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Concordance and complementarity in Intellectual Property instruments

Grazzi, Marco; Piccardo, Chiara; Vergari, Cecilia - 2019

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we …

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Explaining innovative activity in service industries : micro data evidence for Switzerland

Arvanitis, Spyridon (contributor) - 2002

the production of knowledge (appropriability, technological opportunities), innovation and production costs as well as … innovative activities in the service sector. Several innovation variables referring to the input as well as the output side of … the innovation process served as endogenous variables of the innovation model. For the empirical work we used firm data …

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Innovation und Wettbewerb : eine Analyse aufgrund von schweizerischen Unternehmensdaten

Arvanitis, Spyridon (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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