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Industrial policies, patterns of learning and development : an evolutionary perspective
Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2020
This paper investigates the extent to which international trade hinges onpatents. We analyze the export and patenting activities of the universe of French exporting firms over the period 2002-2011. The noticeable feature of our study is that we observe export and patenting activities worldwide...
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'Learning-by-Licensing' : R & D and Technology Licensing in Brazilian Invention
Johnson, Daniel K. N. - 2001
With the recent liberalization of technology flows, changes in the pattern of domestic invention can be expected in Brazil. This paper models the decision of a firm to engage in innovative activity and to protect the results of that activity. Using a unique firm-level dataset collected for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047160
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Labor market power, self-employment, and development
Amodio, Francesco; Medina, Pamela; Morlacco, Monica - 2022
This paper shows that self-employment opportunities shape the market power of employers in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development. Using data from Peru, we document substantial employer concentration and high self-employment rates across manufacturing local labor...
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Structural and Cyclical Trends in Net Employment over US Business Cycles, 1949-2009 : Implications for the Next Recovery and Beyond
Kirkegaard, Jacob F. - 2011
This paper expands on the methodology of Groshen and Potter (2003) for studying cyclical and structural changes in the US economy and analyzes the net structural and cyclical employment trends in the US economy during the last 10 trough-to-trough business cycles from 1949 to the present. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134472
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When Technology Becomes Too Complicated : Implications of Unbalanced Technical Change
San, Shmuel - 2018
This paper examines the impact of unbalanced (skill-biased) technical change on the labor market and economic growth. It argues that when the gap between the technology of skilled and unskilled workers increases, it becomes harder to acquire the skills required to work as a skilled worker;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909278
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From Domestic Manufacture to Industrial Revolution : Long-Run Growth and Agricultural Development
Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - 2015
The classical story of industrialization always begins with agriculture: the modernization of rural institutions, involving both the enclosure of 'open fields' and a shift from peasant farming to larger scale capitalist farming, generates a rise in agricultural productivity, which in turn fuels...
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Strategic sectors and essential jobs : a new taxonomy based on employment multipliers
Cresti, Lorenzo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2022
In this paper we propose a novel sectoral taxonomy integrating three different attributes of sectors, namely i) the strategic dimension reflected into their belonging to different classes of the Pavitt taxonomy, ii) the capacity to create jobs both internally and externally with respect to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013363016
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Allianzen zur Wiederherstellung internationaler Zahlungsfähigkeit : ein Modell für Argentinien?
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2003
Argentina has defaulted on its external debt on January, 2002. The country hopes for "fresh money" from the IMF … conditionality can work as a self-enforcing contract and provide positive externalities to Argentina. …
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How Does Monetary Transmission Mechanism Impact Output, Inflation and Money Market Funds in Argentine?
Ledesma Padilla, Juan - 2010
The paper is aimed at quantifying empirically the monetary transmission mechanism for Argentine, and at analyzing the responses of output, inflation, and money market mutual funds (MMMF) to a positive monetary shock. The idea of incorporating MMMF into the system is to understand how economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147766
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Argentina's "missing capital" puzzle and limited commitment constraints
Kapička, Marek; Kydland, Finn E.; Zarazaga, Carlos Enrique - 2018
Capital accumulation in Argentina was slow in the 1990s, despite high total factor productivity (TFP) growth and low … grounds that previous historical developments had led them to perceive Argentina as a country prone to external debt … environment can magnify the asymmetry. A quantitative implementation of the model economy to data from Argentina accounts, in line …
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