institutions in the dynamics of job creation and destruction is examined. As expected, employment protection is found to reduce job …

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from … that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for … with a productivity trend and employment “inertia”, can account for most of the employment developments between 1970 and …

Since the 1990s major new players have emerged in science and technology u0096 notably in Asia. The result is an … increasingly multi-polar world where science, technology and patent applications are more widely distributed throughout the world …