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The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the economic performance across regions. However, empirical evidence for this claim has been not very convincing, probably due to low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative human...
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A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in … period 1750-2000, we test, for the first time, the validity of this core mechanism of unified growth theory. We measure a …
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I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and nonlinear hiring costs to … analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest … raises growth of technology, labor productivity and real wages. I show, however, that a slowdown in productivity and …
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innovations as well as a higher innovation intensity. Interestingly, the results are of equal magnitude in the manufacturing and … services industries. The results support the view that big data analytics have the potential to enable innovation. …
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This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …
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strategy is linked to transnational territorial cooperation, especially through its third objective, aiming at inclusive growth … research tools of the TERCO Project, which stands for 'European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality …
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The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon … considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are … rates, this work analyzes how increasing inequality and increasing agglomeration influence economic growth depending on the …
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In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …
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representative micro dataset derived from pooling two waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we quantitatively … innovation milieu, significantly boost the innovativeness of firms operating in that region, while several aspects of … differences mediate impact of firm-level predictors, namely the age of firms. Younger firms benefit from the innovation milieu …
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