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Why labour hoarding may be rational: A model offirm behaviour during transition
Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
In the Former Soviet Union, the early 1990s were characterized by largefalls in GDP and small changes to already low unemployment. The slowadjustment to unemployment was a result of employers using variousmeans to maintain employment levels, including; extended periods ofunpaid leave, reduced...
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INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR AND SPATIALLOCATION – USING PATENT COUNTS ANDGEOGRAPHIC LOCATION TO ESTIMATEINNOVATIVE SPILLINS
Miranowski, John A.; Monchuk, Daniel C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
In this paper we examine the relation between geographic location and innovative behavior.Knowledge spillins, as opposed to knowledge spillovers, are modeled as an externality which existsbetween geographically close economic agents and enters the representative inventor productionfunction...
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Beyond the Knowledge Production Function : The Role of R&D in a Multi-faceted Innovative Process
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, de-pending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
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One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovation Activity Using Microdata
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acqusition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...
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Innovationsaktivitäten in nordrhein-westfälischen Industrie- und produktionsnahen Dienstleistungsunternehmen
Nordhause-Janz, Jürgen; Öz, Fikret - 2002
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Innovation in North Rhine-Westphalian economy - a postal survey of 1.100 manufacturing and production orientated Service Firms in North Rhine-Westphalia
Nordhause-Janz, Jürgen; Rehfeld, Dieter - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005857129
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Die Fallstudie aus der Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Weihermann, Astrid; Zelewski, Stephan - 1998
Es handelt sich um eine Fallstudie aus dem Bereich der Betriebswirtschaftslehre in der Zeitschrift "das wirtschaftsstudium".
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To innovate or not to innovate
Bullnheimer, Bernd; Dawid, H.; Reimann, M. - Institut für Informationsverarbeitung und -wirtschaft … - 2000
In this paper we analyze the evolution of output decisions of adaptive firms in an environment of oligopolistic competition. The firm might either choose to produce one of several existing product variants or try to establish a new product variant on the market....
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Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidencefrom Four Regions in China
Chen, Zhuo; Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farmsgrouped into each of four regions—North, Northeast, East, and Southwest—over 1995-1999.These frontier production functions are shown to have statistically different structures, and themarginal product...
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The Story Behind the Post-War Decline in Women’sHousework: Prices, Income, Family Size, andTechnology Effects in a Demand System
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
This paper applies production theory to define a new set of inputs for U.S. households over the post-World War II period and uses newly constructed data on some of these inputs to fit a completehousehold-demand system, including inputs of women’s and men’s housework, and seven other...
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