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I study the effect of refugees' protection status on labor market outcomes focusing on a recent cohort of Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering Germany between 2013 and 2016. My empirical analysis exploits a sudden and unpredictable change in the assessment of the Federal Agency responsible for...
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The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … whose intensities are dependent on the similarity of knowledge background of the interacting individuals: First, the …
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We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …
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This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out … regression can be used for the identi...cation of spatial patterns. In this respect, we ...find a cluster of innovation …
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Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of...
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This paper investigates the effect of aggregate-level information shocks regarding support for a populist right-wing party on the individual disposition to report a respective political preference in survey interviews. Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its...
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"Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation … and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at …
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that the contribution of KIBS to regional innovation is considerable. In fact accounting for the knowledge embedded in …-oriented production systems. Despite the increasing relevance of services, however, the analysis of innovation at the regional aggregate … process and, in some cases, accounting for research-based knowledge externalities. In this paper the role of Knowledge …
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Utilizing a novel econometric approach, routed around the identification and estimation of spatial panel VAR model, the paper provides new estimates of the dynamic effects of private and public R&D expenditure on innovative activity within European regions. The positive long run response of...
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In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility, two of the most important features of advanced labor markets in recent decades. The former relates to the disappearance of middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and...
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