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Bauer, Thomas; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyses the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869 and the...

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Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour

Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that...

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Modelling Work-Related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Elias, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper estimates the determinants of the number of work-related training courses, and their impact on expected wages growth, using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of a cohort of young men – from...

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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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Environmental Innovation Policy and International Competition

Carraro, Carlo; Siniscalco, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

We consider one polluting industry in an open economy. The national government implements a policy of industrial pollution control by inducing appropriate technological innovations to reduce toxic emissions. The emission-reducing innovations are developed through firm-specific costly...

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Rational parasites

Benoit, Jean-Pierre; Galbiati, Roberto; Henry, Emeric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

show that investment can take place even without patent protection, as parasites limit their imitation to preserve the …

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Does Geographical Agglomeration Foster Economic Growth? And Who Gains and Looses From It?

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper proposes a two-region model of endogenous growth, which is a natural combination of a core-periphery model a la Krugman and of a model of endogenous growth a la Grossman/Helpman/Romer. Specifically, we add to the core-periphery model an R&D sector that uses skilled labour to create...

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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''

Hirukawa, Masayuki; Ueda, Masako - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …

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