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This paper investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...
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This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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inequality are characterized by dynamism-a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and …
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We provide an overview of the theories and empricial evidence on the complex relationship among innovation, competition …, and inclusive growth. Competition and innovation-led growth are critical to drive productivity gains and support broad …-based growth. However, new technologies and trends in market concentration are stifling future innovation while contributing to the …
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In this chapter we argue that the endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovations provides a framework for analyzing the determinants of long-run growth and convergence that is versatile, simple and empirically useful. Versatile, as the same framework can be used to analyze how growth...
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This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian …, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. This model generates four main predictions which we test … empirically. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape: the escape …
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