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Ollivaud, Patrice - 2017

to a significant role for competition, innovation, education, firm characteristics and entrepreneurship. The regulatory …

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North Korea : the last transition economy?

Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020

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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Urbanisation and household consumption in China

Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas; Ren, Qiang - 2017

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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Informal employment in Russia : definitions, incidence, determinants and labour market segmentation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2013

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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The UK productivity puzzle through the magnifying glass : a sectoral perspective

Kierzenkowski, Rafał; Machlica, Gabriel; Fulop, Gabor - 2018

, too rapid expansion of financial services, weak innovation in the manufacturing sector, and a secular decline of oil and …

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Scaling new heights : achievements and future challenges for productivity convergence in Lithuania

Westmore, Ben - 2016

role of workplace training will be important. So too will be further measures that support the innovation capacity of the … business sector, including innovation policies that promote the absorptive capacity of firms and do not favour incumbents at …

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Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? : a snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey

Molnár, Margit; Xu, Hui - 2019

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be explained by quality and relevance issues. Although the...

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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain

McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019

barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …

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Public policy reforms to further improve Portuguese export performance

Westmore, Ben; Adamczyk, Paula - 2019

to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …

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Policies for stronger productivity growth in Latvia

Yashiro, Naomitsu; Klein, Caroline; Rastrigina, Olga; … - 2019

Latvia’s productivity growth is held back by weak innovation and inefficient resource allocation. The shortage of … skilled workers which constrains innovation and the adoption of digital technologies must be addressed through further … alignment of vocational and tertiary education with labour market demand. Strengthening the innovation ecosystem by improving …

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