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Azuma, Yoshiaki; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2001

This paper develops a theoretical model of the inequality in wages and salaries associated with differences in years of schooling (educational inequality, for short). Our model assumes that in the long run individual decisions to become more educated equalize the lifetime earnings of more...

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Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction

Barrow, Lisa; Markham, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2007

Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are investing heavily in computerized curriculums as a way to enhance education output, even though there is surprisingly little evidence that they actually improve student achievement. In...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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An alternative approach towards the knowledge production function on a regional level: Applications for the USA and Russia

Perret, Jens - 2016

the context of the USA and the Russian Federation. Following Fritsch and Slavtchev (2006) a knowledge production function … estimation of the knowledge production function to account for a possible non-linear relationship between knowledge inputs and … knowledge output. Using regional data for researchers, expenditures on R& D and patent grants for the USA and the Russian …

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It's a Small(er) World: The Role of Geography and Networks in Biotechnology Innovation

Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Mareva, Milena - 2002

Using patent citation data for the U.S., we test whether knowledge spillovers in biotechnology are sensitive to distance. Controlling for self-citation by inventor, assignee and examiner, cohort-based regression analysis shows that spillovers are local but that distance is becoming less...

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Regional Innovation in the US over Space and Time

Varga, Attila; Anselin, Luc; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2003

Modeling the spatial aspect of growth has finally become an important subject of economics as exemplified by the increasing popularity of the new economic geography. However, new economic geography models have still not been able to develop a consistent approach to integrate innovation, space...

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R&D and Productivity: Empirical Evidence at the Firm Level

Wieser, Robert - 2001

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Innovation and Employment in Europe in the 1990s

Biffl, Gudrun; Knell, Mark - 2001

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Competition and innovation: An inverted u relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Richard; … - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian growth model is developed in which firms innovate Ñ³tep-by-stepÒ¬ and where both technological leaders and their followers engage in R&D activities. In this model, competition...

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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function: A note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...

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