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to a significant role for competition, innovation, education, firm characteristics and entrepreneurship. The regulatory …
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This paper takes stock of informal employment in Russia analysing its incidence and determinants. Using the regular 2003-11 waves and an informality supplement of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) it develops several measures of informal employment and demonstrates that the...
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This paper focusses on the link between urbanisation and consumption behaviour in China. Urbanisation is defined here as rural people moving to cities to work and migrant workers in cities obtaining urban residential status, against the backdrop of government plans to settle 100 million rural...
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The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...
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, too rapid expansion of financial services, weak innovation in the manufacturing sector, and a secular decline of oil and …
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well-designed environmental policies can provide a ‘free lunch’ – encouraging innovation, bringing about gains in …
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– proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation … these measures of innovation intensity and MFP growth. Innovation-specific policies such as R&D tax incentives, direct … forthcoming. A pervasive theme from the analysis is the importance of coupling policies aimed at encouraging innovation or …
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, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and … structural reforms offer the most cost-effective approach to raising investment in KBC, there is a role for innovation policies …
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This paper exploits longitudinal data on firm performance and patenting activity for 23 OECD countries over the period 2003-2010 to explore the extent to which changes in the patent stock are associated with flows of capital and labour to patenting firms. While the finding that patenting is...
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specialisation and innovation; removing remaining barriers to entrepreneurship and competition; ensuring access to finance for SMEs …
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