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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....
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those with prior self-employment experience - to start a business and become self-employed, while it may have persuaded … others to pursue salary employment instead. During the Great Recession, training helped training participants become self …-employed, particularly those with no prior self-employment experience. Regardless of economic conditions, positive impacts on self-employment …
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activities without the introduction of technologies on employment, using data from the Ecuadorian Innovation Survey and the … introduction of new technologies increases total employment in the short run; although investment in R&D, without the introduction …
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activities without the introduction of technologies on employment, using data from the Ecuadorian Innovation Survey and the … introduction of new technologies increases total employment in the short run; although investment in R&D, without the introduction …
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high rates of unemployment. FDI are widely recognized for their contribution on host country economic growth, therefore … foreign capital inflows are considered a viable solution to reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. The aim of the … FDI flows in these countries and theoretically to present the effects of FDI on employment. The econometric analysis is …
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-income countries and in the low-income countries. Whereas the economic downturn has threatened recent progress in enhancing employment … opportunities, the impact has fallen disproportionately on the quality of employment rather than on the number of jobs. Slower … standard working hours—for example, by granting partial compensation from the unemployment benefit system or by providing paid …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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different entities; and (2) the cooperation between the public employment services and non-governmental employment agencies in … directions for further research in the field of integration of employment services. …
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) aided the adjustment. The Covid-19 downturn resulted in an unprecedented decline in employment, and a steep rise in … unemployment and non-participation. Despite the severity of the Covid-19 shock, by December 2021 most key measures of labor market …
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