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The current study aims at analyzing the impact of technological change and innovations on the labor market in Egypt. Using the panel data of Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) 1998, 2006, and 2012 as well as the initial year of ELMPS 1988, a quadratic form of equation for employment is...
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This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...
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infrastructure investment and R&D relevant for digital sectors, along with qualified skills of researchers and of workers, coming to …
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I analyze energy-efficiency policy as a prescription of a minimum-efficiency standard for energy-using household goods like cars, building insulation, and home appliances. Such a policy has two effects. At the intensive margin, a household that invests will choose a more efficient device. At the...
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This paper studies the effects of investment tax credits on firms’ input choices by exploitinga sudden shift in the tax … significant increase in both investment and employment, with implied elasticities with respect to capital costs of 2.8 and 1 … evidence that the average firm adjusts its skill mix or occupational structure, firms in industries with higher investment …
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"Flowering Meadows" is the name of a new style of agri-environmental contract which has been included into the French Rural Development Plan 2007-2013. This contract is unusual in all respects. Management prescriptions are given up: the farmer is free to tend his meadow as he wants as long as he...
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