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Micro Moments Database for Cross-Country Analysis of ICT, Innovation, and Economic Outcomes

Bartelsman, Eric; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments … allows research that bridges micro and macro analysis. The paper delineates the type of research questions that uniquely can … available. The paper next presents the methodology underlying construction of the MMD and provides documentation of the rich set …

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Premature Deindustrialization through the Lens of Occupations: Which Jobs, Why, and Where?

Kunst, David - 2019

A recent literature documents that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

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Deskilling among Manufacturing Production Workers

Kunst, David - 2019

Although four out of five manufacturing employees work in production occupations in most countries (as opposed to white collar occupations), there is little international evidence on how the transition to more capital intensive production methods has affected the demand for different groups of...

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Endogenous Technological Change under Uncertainty

de Hek, Paul A. - 2002

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this question, a model of endogenous technological change is used where sustained growth stems from intentional investments in R&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises...

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies …

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Uncertain Technological Change under Capital Mobility

de Hek, Paul A. - 2005

The analysis in this paper shows that unpredictable variations in economic productivity may have a positive or negative …

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The Firms behind the Regions: Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal by External Logistic Biplots

de Noronha, Teresa; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - 2013

efforts was to diffuse much of the European funds across the entrepreneurial sector. This paper aims to evaluate the firms …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …

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Measuring Productivity Dispersion

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2017

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological issues. Nevertheless, the existence of considerable dispersion now is well documented and widely accepted. Less well understood are the economic features and mechanisms...

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Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies under Skill-Biased Technical Change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC …

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