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R&d subsidy and import substitution: Growing in the shadow of protection

de Souza, Gustavo - 2023

I study the effect of an innovation subsidy on the growth of firms in a developing country. Using administrative microdata for Brazil and difference-in-differences, I find that innovation subsidies drive firm growth by facilitating firm entry into high-tariff markets with domestically produced,...

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Bio-pharma's impact on California's state and local economy

Philips, Peter; Duncan, Kevin - 2013

In California, a leading state in biotech research & development, and bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing, more than 100 …

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Growth Complementarity Between Agriculture and Industry: Evidence from a Panel of Developing Countries

de Souza, Joao Paulo A. - 2014

Using dynamic panel models with data for 62 developing countries, this paper examines whether growth in agriculture elicits growth in manufacturing. For identification, I use population-weighted, average temperature as an instrument for growth in agriculture. I identify large short-run effects:...

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Norwegian Gross Domestic Product by Industry 1830 - 1930

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2015

The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830-1930. Secondly, the new estimates suggest revision of the historical national...

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Horizontal and vertical polarization: Task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy

Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019

We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...

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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, highlighting its persistent effect on … development, it has had a detrimental effect on standards of living in the long-run. Exploiting exogenous source of regional …

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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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Industrialization and the fertility decline

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015

The research provides the first empirical examination of the hypothesized effect of industrialization on the fertility decline. Exploiting exogenous source of regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that industrialization was a major catalyst in...

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Hydrogen corporatism and working time reduction: Union strategies in the transformation of German primary steel manufacturing

Schoppengerd, Stefan - 2024

Industrial trade unions in Europe and North America often struggle to develop a coherent strategy on climate change and overcoming fossil fuel production patterns. Trade union policy in the German steel industry is an interesting example of this: the "green" restructuring is firmly in favour, as...

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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Bekhtiar, Karim - 2023

international trade and automation technologies, suggests that both forces contributed in roughly equal parts to this development. …

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