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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018

located. The main results indicate that firms with a larger share of women in the knowledge creation and innovation process …This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation …

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Child labor and resistance to change

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Education in a marriage market model without commitment

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and...

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A classical model of education, growth and distribution

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD

Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021

We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...

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How much does degree choice matter?

Britton, Jack; Erve, Laura van der; Belfield, Chris; … - 2021

Using a large and novel administrative dataset, this paper investigates variation in returnsto different higher education ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background characteristics, it finds substantial variation inreturns, even...

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FDI spillover effects on innovation activities of knowledge-using and knowledge-creating firms : evidence from an emerging economy

Vujanović, Nina; Hoshi, Iraj; Hisarciklilar, Mehtap; … - 2022

among firms that undertake innovation through knowledge use rather than through knowledge generation. …The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

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Labor market regulation and informality

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Mata, Daniel da; Guner, Nezih; … - 2024

This paper investigates informal employment in Brazil's highly regulated labor market, focusing on the intensive margin of informality within formal firms. Using a comprehensive dataset of labor audits conducted from 1997 to 2012, we find that formal firms caught with informal workers face...

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