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and engineers while R&D uses only engineers. Workers are unionized and labour market regulation supports union power in … level of welfare. When the interest-rate elasticity of consumption in the world is low (high), the simultaneous regulation …
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This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
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rents and the government can support unions by labour market regulation. We show that if unions are initially very strong …, regulation increases only the workers' profit share and has no impact on employment and growth. Otherwise, regulation increases … faster. Regulation (deregulation) is desirable when the growth rate is below (above) some critical level …
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and engineers while R&D uses only engineers. Workers are unionized and labour market regulation supports union power in … level of welfare. When the interest-rate elasticity of consumption in the world is low (high), the simultaneous regulation …
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and engineers while R&D uses only engineers. Workers are unionized and labour market regulation supports union power in … level of welfare. When the interest-rate elasticity of consumption in the world is low (high), the simultaneous regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001689370
This paper examines how unionization affects economic growth through its impact on industry concentration in a two-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in innovation with geographic patterns of industry...
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Innovations (i.e. Regulator-approved innovations) to the number of total patents and (3) exponentially increasing regulation over … time. Greater expenditures on regulation and corporate R&D are required to assess the net benefit of innovation because of … propose counteracts the crucial "Knowledge Spillover" effect in the Endogenous Growth models. The rise of regulation versus …
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We analyze the relative growth performance of open economies in a two-country model where different endowments of labor and a natural resource generate asymmetric trade. A resource-rich economy trades resource-based intermediates for final manufacturing goods produced by a resource-poor economy....
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Does redistribution increase inequality? Is inequality harmfiil for growth? Both questions have recently been addressed in a number of single-tax models. In this paper, I examine the relationship between policy, growth and inequality when income and wealth can be taxed at different rates. In the...
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