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Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … is conducive to per capita income growth and that social capital affects this growth indirectly by fostering innovation … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …
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This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...
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We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
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data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …
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trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … knowledge production function has to be considered in order to analyze FDI and innovation dynamics – and this can then be linked … to output and economic growth, respectively. It is argued that such a Schumpeterian approach for an open economy is …
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can offer a broad analysis of product innovation dynamics in Europe which should be the basis for not only better supply …-side policy in EU countries and growth policy, respectively, but it also suggests a strong role for international digital … communication in relation to product innovation dynamics. Moreover, the approach provides new important arguments in favor of the …
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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This note describes the contribution of migrant workers to the ongoing effort to keep basic services running in the Union during the COVID-19 epidemic. We quantify the prevalence of migrant workers in the so called "key professions" that the Commission and Member States have identified using the...
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Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low mortality rate of 35 deaths to date (out of a population of approximately 100 million) and currently has no community transmission. We offer the first study that examines the...
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