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Looking beyond the R&D effects on innovation: The contribution of non-R&D activities to total factor productivity growth in the EU
Lopez-Rodriguez, Jesus; Martinez, Diego - 2015
Although non-R&D innovation activities account for a significant portion of innovation efforts carried out across very heterogeneous economies in Europe, how to incorporate them in to economic models is not always straightforward. For instance, the traditional macro approach to estimating the...
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Firms' Involvement in Standardization and Average Total Costs per Patent Family
Gamarra, Yanis; Friedl, Gunther - 2022
Technology standards such as the Wi-Fi or 5G mobile communication standard rely on standard-essential patents (SEPs). Increasing licensing revenues and several disputes between owners and users of SEPs raise the question about the patenting behavior of firms developing standardized technologies....
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
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Regulation, Rents and "Iconic Design": rent acquisition by design in the tightly constrained London office market
Cheshire, Paul; Dericks, Gerard - 2013
A 2008 paper investigating the Regulatory Tax (RT) on office development in Britain (Cheshire & Hilber, 2008) provided evidence of very tight restrictions on office space going back at least 50 years. It was also argued that the RT measure tended to underestimate the full costs of restrictive...
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Neighborhood Effect and Labor Market Integration
To, Maxime; Solignac, Matthieu - 2014
The 2008 economic crisis raised concerns about unemployment, especially for youths. Over the last decade, two stylized … facts can be observed in the French labor market about youth unemployment: its average rate remaining at high levels and its … employment conditions on job access remains significant suggesting that the labor market context matters to successfully enter …
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Labor Market Outcomes of Highly Educated Immigrants: Does Your Name Matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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Migration, allocation and reallocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015
in each year during the investigation period, thus also each person's annual change in employment status during the same …. Domestic migration has to a certain extent been beneficial for immigrants to obtain employment or to carry out an education …
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Regional resilience to displacements: Explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers
Nyström, Kristina - 2015
of displacement, in terms of, for example, unemployment duration, and earning losses is comprehensive (See e … characteristics of the regional economy refer to, for example, the size of the region, unemployment level and industrial turbulence in … study the regional patterns of re-employment of displaced workers in 81 Swedish regions 2001-2009. For policymakers …
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Lockdown length and strength: labour-market effects in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2021
considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … employment in the first wave were due to the treatment effect of the lockdown measures. In sum, the lockdown measures increased … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …
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Understanding the Role of the Public Employment Agency
Holzner, Christian; Watanabe, Makoto - 2018
The Public Employment Agency (PEA) provides intermediation services in the labor market. We investigate the …
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