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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David - 2011

Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Böheim, René - 2010

THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …

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The Timing of Labor Demand

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …

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Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap : Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

Card, David - 2015

-fifth of the cross-sectional gender wage gap in Portugal …

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Firms and Labor Market Inequality : Evidence and Some Theory

Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Heining, Joerg; Kline, … - 2021

We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2015

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

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Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors

Bell, Alexander - 2019

Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development … grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursue careers in innovation … innovation are extremely skewed – with the top 1% of inventors collecting more than 22% of total inventors' income – and are …

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …

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Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An Rd Design for R&D

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2016

We present evidence of a causal impact of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on innovation. We exploit a …

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