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Innovation and imitation in a model of North-South trade
Borota, Teodora - 2010
analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321457
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Bottom-up vs. top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property
Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus - 2001
What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great deal of resources into university R&D, but follow very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281236
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Designing efficient institutions for science-based entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000
The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986 - 2002
Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - 2007
Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317963
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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009
objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273947
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281026
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Innovation and performance in manufacturing industries: A comparison of the Nordic countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - 2001
The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281247
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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294544
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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273952
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Does a pint day affect your childs pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes
Nilsson, J. Peter - 2008
This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
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